H ISTORY 


PRESS  CLUB  OF  CHICAGO 

AX   ACCOUNT  OF  ITS   ORGANIZATION  AND   PERFORMANCES 
FROM  JANUARY,  1880,  TO  SEPTEMBER,  1888, 


LIST   OR 

AND 

SYNOPSIS  OF"  IXIF-ORTANT  PROCEEDINGS. 


PUBLISHED  BY  DIRECTION  OF  THE  CLUB, 

1888. 


COMPILED  BY  F.  O.  BENNETT. 


CHICAGO: 

H.  O.  SHEPARD  &  Co.,  PRINTERS,  183  TO  187  MONROB  STREET 


Northwestern  University 
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PRESS  CLtiB  0F  CHIGAG0. 


The  Press  Club  of  Chicago,  with  proper  motives 
underlying  its  foundation,  aided  by  dignified  and  able 
management,  has,  in  the  few  years  since  its  organization, 
achieved  a  prominence  and  influence  for  good  never 
excelled  by  any  similar  organization  in  this  country. 

It  was  on  November  15,  1879,  t^at  tne  idea  of 
forming  the  present  Press  Club  first  took  root  in  fruitful 
ground.  On  that  date,  Samuel  L.  Clemens  (Mark  Twain), 
who  was  a  guest  of  the  Reception  Committee  on  the  oc- 
casion of  the  reception  and  banquet  in  honor  of  General 
U.  S.  Grant,  was  entertained  by  a  number  of  journalists, 
and  while  festivity  and  flow  of  soul  held  joyous  sway,  he 
turned  to  Franc  B.  Wilkie,  of  The  Times,  and  Mr.  Melville 
E.  Stone,  of  The  News,  and  asked  : 

"Why  is  it  the  journalists  of  Chicago  do  not  have  an 
organization  similar  to  the  New  York  Press  Club?  " 

Mr.  Wilkie  responded  that  it  was  a  difficult  matter  to 
get 'the  journalists  together,  and  that  no  organized  effort 
in  the  direction  of  forming  a  club  had  been  made  of  late 
years.  He  had,  however,  given  the  subject  some  thought, 
and  in  accordance  with  the  honored  guest's  suggestion 


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•1  HISTORY    OF   THE 

would  endeavor  to  interest  other  journalists  in  the  project. 
Mr.  Clemens  urged  Mr.  Wilkie  to  do  so,  and  said  he  would 
be  glad  of  an  opportunity  to  serve  such  an  organization. 

Both  Mr.  Wilkie  and  Mr.  Stone  agreed  to  use  their 
best  efforts  in  the  direction  of  organizing  a  press  club. 

There  had  been  a  press  club  in  Chicago,  in  which 
W.  K.  Sullivan,  of  The  Journal,  had  been  a  leading  spirit. 
This  club  was  extinguished  at  a  small  meeting  of  the 
members  held  at  the  Briggs  House,  December  23,  1872. 
Mr.  Stone  and  Mr.  Wilkie  consulted  together  and  secured 
the  cooperation  of  Mr.  W.  K.  Sullivan,  these  three  inter- 
ested others,  and  the  result  was  that  on  the  afternoon  of 
Sunday,  January  n,  1880,  sixteen  journalists  gathered  in 
the  club  room  of  the  Tremont  House  for  the  purpose  of  dis- 
cussing the  formation  of  a  club.  The  meeting  was  organized 
by  making  Mr.  Wilkie  chairman  and  Mr.  Stone  secretary. 
The  sixteen  present  signed  their  names  to  a  roll,  as  a 
guarantee  of  membership,  and  the  unanimous  sentiment 
expressed  was  that  a  press  club  should  be  formed,  those 
present  taking  the  initiative  and  guaranteeing  that  it 
should  not  be  a  failure.  Mr.  Stone  submitted  the  draft  of 
a  constitution  and  by-laws  which  was  adopted  for  the 
purpose  of  operating  under  temporarily.  A  special  com- 
mittee was  appointed  to  secure  a  hall  in  which  to  hold 
meetings. 

The  first  annual  meeting  was  called  for  Thursday,  Jan- 
uary 15,  1880,  at  4  o'clock  P.M.,  at  the  Tremont  House, 
for  the  purpose  of  perfecting  a  formal  organization,  and 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  O 

the  election  of  officers.  This  meeting  was  duly  held, 
there  being  twenty -four  working  journalists  present. 
Messrs.  Wilkie  and  Stone  acted  as  Chairman  and  Secre- 
tary respectively. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Theo.  Gestefeld  the  meeting  pro- 
ceeded to  ballot  for  officers  for  the  ensuing  year  with  the 
following  result : 

FOR   PRESIDENT. 

FRANC  B.  WILKIE,  The  Times 17  votes. 

MELVILLE  E.  STONE,  The  Daily  News 7     " 

VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

First     —  GUY  MAGEE,  The  Tribune 23  votes. 

Second  —  W.  T.  COLLINS,  The  Telegraph 13  " 

Third   — JOHN  F.  BALLANTYNE,  The  Inter  Ocean 13  " 

GEORGE  B.  ARMSTRONG 10  " 

THEO.  GESTEFELD,  Staats  Zeitung 6  " 

J.  R.  DUNLOP,  The  Times 3  " 

W.  K.  SULLIVAN,  The  Journal 2  " 

T.  C.  MACMILLAN,  The  Inter  Ocean 2  " 

THOMAS  BURNSIDE,  The  Telegraph i  " 

SECRETARY   AND   TREASURER. 

MELVILLE  E.  STONE 22  votes. 

THOMAS  BURNSIDE i      " 

W.  K.  SULLIVAN i     " 

The  members  of  the  Executive  Committee  were  voted 
upon  singly,  the  result  being : 

THEO.  GESTEFELD,  Staats  Zeitung 9  votes,  balance  scattering. 

W.  K.  SULLIVAN,  The  Journal -. . .  20     "  "  " 

JAMES  MAITLAND,  The  Tribune 13     "  "  " 

JOSEPH  R.  DUNLOP,  The  Times 23     "  "  " 

T.  C.  MACMILLAN,  The  Inter  'Ocean  .  . .  18     "  "  " 


6  HISTORY    OF    THE 

Mr.  Dunlop,  of  the  Special  Committee  on  Hall,  re- 
ported, asking  further  time,  which  was  granted. 

A  Special  Committee,  composed  of  Messrs.  Thomas 
Burnside,  John  J.  Flinn  and  Henry  F.  Donovan,  was 
appointed  to  secure  publications  and  form  the  nucleus  of 
a  library. 

A  Visiting  Committee  was  also  appointed,  consisting  of 
Messrs.  H.  F.  Donovan,  W.  B.  Sullivan  and  Platt  Lewis. 

The  Secretary  was  instructed  to  have  slips  of  the  Con- 
stitution printed;  the  Treasurer  reported  $84.00  as  the 
receipts  of  the  meeting.  Adjourned  to  meet  at  the  Tre- 
mont  House,  Sunday,  January  25,  1880,  at  5  P.M. 

At  the  next  meeting,  held  pursuant  to  adjournment, 
Messrs.  Burnside  and  Hardy,  who  had  not  yet  signed  the 
Constitution,  affixed  their  signatures,  and  Mr.  John  E. 
Wilkie,  whose  dues  were  paid,  but  who  had  not  been 
present  at  the  former  meeting,  was  accepted  as  an  original 
member,  the  list  of  charter  members  then  being  composed 
of  the  following  named  persons :  Melville  E.  Stone, 
Franc  B.  Wilkie,  Rodney  Welch,  W.  K.  Sullivan,  T.  C. 
Macmillan,  Joseph  R.  Dunlop,  Henry  F.  Donovan,  W.  B. 
Sullivan,  F.  O.  Bennett,  Theo.  Gestefeld,  William  T.  Hall, 
John  J.  Flinn,  J.  F.  Ballantyne,  Elwyn  A.  Barren,  W.  T. 
Collins,  James  Maitland,  Platt  Lewis,  Thos.  E.  Burnside, 
C.  A.  Snowden,  Lawrence  Hardy,  W.  P.  Hanscom,  Guy 
Magee,  W.  H.  Hicks,  John  E.  Wilkie  and  Sam  V.  Steele. 

The  Executive  Committee  reported  having,  in  conjunc- 
tion with  the  Special  Committee,  examined  rooms  at 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  7 

Xo.  133  Clark  street,  in  a  central  location,  and  having 
excellent  moral  surroundings.  Two  rooms  could  be  pro- 
cured for  a  rental  of  $25.00  per  month.  The  committee 
was  authorized  to  secure  the  rooms. 

THE  CLUB  FINDS  A  HOME. 

The  first  meeting  in  the  new  rooms  was  held  February 
22,  1880.  The  Executive  Committee  reported  that  in 
passing  upon  applications  for  membership  they  had  judged 
it  to  be  their  duty  simply  to  ascertain  if  the  applicant 
was  constitutionally  eligible,  and  deemed  it  to  be  outside 
their  province  to  inquire  whether  any  personal  objections 
were  held  to  the  nominee  by  individual  members.  The 
committee  reported  favorably  upon  forty-three  names,  and 
all  of  the  persons  except  four  were  duly  elected  to  mem- 
bership. 

Messrs.  Dunlop,  Hicks  and  Donovan  were  appointed 
as  a  Committee  on  House  Rules,  and  they  reported  a 
temporary  code  of  rules  which  was  adopted. 

March  28,  a  regular  monthly  meeting  was  held,  at 
which  eleven  new  members  were  elected  and  three  appli- 
cants rejected. 

The  Constitution  which  had  been  adopted  January  22, 
and  had  been  amended  from  time  to  time  in  minor  par- 
ticulars, was  formally  adopted  at  this  meeting,  and  on 
motion  of  Mr.  Stone  it  was  decided  to  have  it  printed  in 


8  HISTORY   OF   THE 

the  form  of  a  small  pamphlet  for  the  use   of  members. 
The  preamble  of  this  instrument  was  as  follows  : 

For  the  purpose  of  bringing  the  members  of  the  newspaper  pro- 
fession together  in  closer  personal  relations,  to  elevate  the  profession, 
to  further  good  fellowship,  and  to  extend  a  helping  hand  to  all  mem- 
bers of  the  organization  who  may  deserve  it,  the  undersigned  hereby 
form  themselves  into  a  society. 

At  this  meeting  Mr.  Magee  moved,  and  it  was  carried, 
that  no  gambling,  or  game  of  chance,  in  which  there 
might  be  a  pecuniary  interest,  should  be  allowed  in  the 
Club  rooms. 

Messrs.  Rodney  Welch,  S.  J.  Medill,  J.  B.  Bradwell, 
Sam  V.  Steele,  Franc  B.  Wilkie  and  M.  E.  Stone  were 
appointed  a  Committee  on  Entertainment. 

It  will  thus  be  seen  that  at  this  early  stage  the  reputa- 
ble journalists  of  Chicago,  to  the  number  of  seventy-five, 
had  been  united  in  an  organization  of  a  stable  character, 
having  more  definite  and  commendable  aims  than  any 
that  had  theretofore  been  attempted.  Once  fairly  estab- 
lished in  its  new  rooms,  the  membership  of  the  Club 
increased  rapidly.  The  young  organization  was  beset 
with  trials  of  personal  and  tribulations  of  financial  char- 
acter not  necessary  to  enumerate  in  a  record  which  is  of 
necessity  but  a  plain,  uncolored  statement  of  advancement 
from  a  small  beginning  to  a  great  and  permanent  success. 
There  was  the  question  of  furnishing  and  fitting  up  the 
new  rooms ;  the  difficulty  in  prescribing  rules  for  games 
and  amusements  to  suit  all  tastes ;  and,  more  important 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  9 

still,  the  prompt  payment  of  all  obligations  and  keeping 
out  of  debt. 

THE  FIRST  SPREAD. 

From  time  to  time  the  thoughts  of  the  management 
turned  toward  the  matter  of  devising  suitable  and  popular 
social  diversion  for  the  members.  Saturday  evening, 
January  24,  1880,  ten  days  after  the  election  of  officers, 
President  Wilkie  and  Treasurer  Stone  entertained  the 
original  members  with  a  spread  in  the  ladies'  ordinary  of 
the  Tremont  House.  It  was  the  first  time  in  many  years 
that  working  journalists  to  the  number  of  thirty  had  met 
together  socially,  and  distinctively  as  journalists,  at  their 
own  board. 

The  spread  was  in  testimonial  of  the  gratification  felt 
by  the  officers  over  the  successful  organization  of  the  Press 
Club  and  in  return  of  the  compliment  of  their  election  as 
its  first  President  and  Treasurer. 

A  telegram  of  regret  at  his  inability  to  be  present,  and 
offering  congratulations,  was  received  from  Mark  Twain, 
at  Hartford,  and  read  by  Mr.  Wilkie. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Club  held  April  25,  1880,  Mr. 
Canman  gave  notice  of  an  amendment  to  the  Constitution 
providing  for  the  election  of  officers  by  ballot  at  the  Jan- 
uary meeting  each  year ;  four  new  members  were  elected 
and  three  applicants  rejected.  Mr.  Stone,  owing  to  the 
demands  of  other  business,  resigned  the  office  of  Secretary, 


10  HISTORY   OF   THE 

but  consented  to  serve  as  Treasurer.  Mr.  Thomas  O. 
Thompson  was  elected  temporary  Financial  Secretary. 

June  13,  1880,  Mr.  Canman's  amendment  as  to 
officers  was  unanimously  adopted,  providing  for  the  same 
number  and  election  in  the  same  manner  as  at  the  present 
writing. 

Mr.  T.  Z.  Cowles  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee,  vice  Mr.  Maitland,  resigned;  Thomas  O. 
Thompson  was  elected  Financial  Secretary,  and  Elwyn  A. 
Barren  Recording  Secretary. 

The  name  of  Blanche  Roosevelt  Tucker  was  proposed 
by  Mr.  Wilkie  for  honorary  membership,  and,  this  being  a 
precedent,  action  was  postponed. 

Mr.  Bennett  proposed  to  amend  the  Constitution  by 
making  it  require  five  instead  of  three  black-balls,  as 
formerly,  to  reject  an  applicant  for  membership.  This 
was  adopted  June  27,  1880. 

Mr.  Dunlop  announced  on  behalf  of  the  Entertainment 
Committee  that  arrangements  had  been  completed  for  a 
musical  and  literary  entertainment  at  Central  Music  Hall 
July  14.  This  was  subsequently  postponed  until  Septem- 
ber 30,  1880. 

July  26,  the  hospitalities  of  the  Club  were  extended  to 
journalists  visiting  the  city  during  the  Triennial  Con- 
clave of  the  Knights  Templars,  and  a  Committee  on 
Reception  was  appointed. 

August  29,  1880,  the  clause  in  the  Constitution  regard- 
ing honorary  membership  was  adopted. 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  11 

THE  FIRST  ENTERTAINMENT. 

September  30,  the  first  annual  entertainment  was  given 
at  Central  Music  Hall.  The  event  was  a  pronounced  suc- 
cess, and  at  once  established  the  annually  recurring 
entertainments  of  the  Press  Club  in  popular  favor.  The 
press  on  the  following  morning  related  that  never  before 
had  such  a  brilliant  and  critical  audience  assembled 
to  do  honor  to  any  public  entertainment  in  Chicago. 
Every  seat  and  box  was  filled ;  standing  room  was  at  a 
premium,  and  ladies  with  opera  cloaks  and  diamonds 
were  as  plentiful  in  the  upper  gallery  as  in  the  parquette. 
The  programme  was  as  follows  : 


12  HISTORY    OF    THE 


PROGRAMME. 

1.  QUARTET — Theme  and  Variations  in  D  Minor,       ....      Schubert. 

LEISEGANG-HEIMENDAHL  STRING  QUARTET. 

2.  SONG — My  Angel, ...-.        Esser. 

MR.  JOHN  McWADE. 

3      RECITATION — Tom's  Little  Star,      .....      Harper's  Monthly. 
MRS.  LAURA  DAINTY. 

4.  ARIA — Robert  toi  qui  J'aime,       -  -        Meyerbeer. 

MRS.  IDA  MAE  PRYCE. 

5.  VOCAL  QUARTET— Spring  Night,       -  Fischer. 

THE  CHICAGO  CHICKERING  QUARTET. 
Chas.  A.  Knorr,  Charles  H.  Clark,  John  E.  McWade,  Charles  F.  Noble. 

6.  VIOLIN  SOLO — Spanish  Dance,        -------        Sarasate. 

MR.  E.  HEIMENDAHL. 

7.  ARIA — Chegioja,         ---------  Mattel. 

MISS  EMMA  ABBOTT. 

8.  READING — Sketch  from  "  The  Queen  of  Bohemia,"        ...        Hatton. 

MR.  JOSEPH  HATTON. 
His  first  appearance  in  America. 

9.  BALLAD — The  Kerry  Dance,      --------      Malloy. 

MRS.  JESSIE  BARTLETT-DAVIS. 

10.     PIANO  SOLO — Grand  Polka  de  Concert,         -----         Bandeir. 
MR.  EMIL  LIEBLING. 

n.     BALLAD — Way  Down  upon  the  Swanee  River,      ...      Negro  Melody. 
MISS  EMMA  ABBOTT. 

12.  RECITATION — "  Marc  Antony's  Oration,"  from  "  Julius  Caesar,"  Shakespeare. 

MR.  THOMAS  W.  KEENE. 

13.  QUARTET — Serenade  (new,  first  time  in  public),        -        -        -        S.  G.  Pratt. 

LEISEGANG-HEIMENDAHL  STRING  QUARTET. 

14.  SONG — Charity,     -  -     Faure. 

MR.  CHARLES  KNORR. 

15.  LECTURE — Advice  to  Boys  and  Girls,        -        -  Robson. 

MR.  STUART  ROBSON. 

16.  BUFFO  SONG — The  Stew-Pan  Song,      ------       Offenbach. 

MR.  WM.  H.  CRANE. 

17.  VOCAL  QUARTET — He's  the  Man,     ...       ^        ...     Zollner 

THE  CHICAGO  CHICKERING  QUARTET. 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  13 

% 

October  3,  a  meeting  of  the  Club  was  held,  at  which 
Treasurer  Stone  reported  that  the  estimated  net  proceeds 
of  the  first  annual  entertainment  were  $2,100,  of  which 
Si, 944  were  already  in  hand. 

The  thariks  of  the  Club  were  extended  formally  by  vote 
to  George  B.  Carpenter,  the  National  Printing  Company, 
Rand,  McNally  &  Co.,  Knight  &  Leonard,  Kingsley  & 
Burgoffer,  Leroy  Payne  and  Mr.  Beardsley  for  assisting 
in  making  the  entertainment  such  a  success.  Similar 
votes  of  thanks  were  tendered  S.  M.  Moore,  Esq.,  for  a 
paid-up  policy  of  insurance  on  the  Club  fixtures  and 
to  J.  H.  McVicker,  Esq.,  for  a  number  of  handsome 
engravings,  contributed  to  beautify  and  adorn  the  Club 
rooms. 

A  permanent  Reception  Committee  and  a  permanent 
Committee  on  Entertainment  were  appointed ;  the  latter 
to  provide  a  social  entertainment  in  the  Club  rooms  on 
the  fourth  Saturday  night  in  each  month,  to  be  known  as 
"Ladies'  Night." 

October  24,  1880,  the  Treasurer  was  instructed  by  vote 
to  invest  $1,500  of  Club  funds  in  interest-bearing  bonds. 

Blanche  Roosevelt  Tucker  and  Joseph  Hatton,  of 
London,  England,  were  elected  honorary  members. 

November  7,  1880,  Judge  Brad  well  announced  that  the 
Secretary  of  State  had  informed  him  that  a  so-called  Chi- 
cago Press  Club  had  secured  the  corporate  right  to  the 
name,  and  Judge  Bradwell  suggested  that  the  Club  adopt 


14  HISTORY    OF    THE 

the  name  "  Press  Club  of  Chicago."  The  matter  was 
left  to  the  Executive  Committee  to  determine. 

Treasurer  Stone  made  a  statement  showing  expendi- 
tures since  October  24  of  $369.65;  balance  on  hand  to 
date,  $1,625.85. 

Mr.  Stone  called  attention  to  the  approaching  anni- 
versary of  the  organization  of  the  Club,  January  15,  1881, 
and  moved  the  appointment  of  a  committee  of  three  to 
consider  the  advisability  of  having  a  banquet  on  that  date. 
The  motion  prevailed,  and  Messrs.  Wilkie,  Stone  and 
Cowles  were  appointed  as  the  committee. 

ADOPTION   OF   THE   CHARTER. 

December  12,  1880,  Judge  Bradwell  reported  the  re- 
ceipt of  the  charter  for  the  Press  Club  of  Chicago,  and 
the  instrument  was  referred  to  the  Executive  Committee 
for  examination,  and  was  adopted  by  the  Club  at  a  subse- 
quent meeting. 

The  Executive  Committee  was  authorized  to  lease  an 
additional  room. 

The  Committee  on  Banquet  reported  in  favor  of  a 
reception  and  banquet,  to  be  held  Saturday,  January  15, 
at  5  o'clock  P.M.  The  place  of  holding  the  banquet  was 
left  to  the  committee  to  determine. 

January  2,  1881,  Messrs.  Barren,  Colebrook,  and  Brad- 
well  were  appointed  to  revise  and  codify  the  Constitution. 
One  hundred  dollars  was  appropriated  to  the  use  of  the 
Library  Committee. 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  15 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Stone,  the  annual  meeting  and 
election  was  called  for  January  20,  at  4  o'clock  P.M.,  the 
polls  to  be  open  from  4  to  9  o'clock.  It  was  decided  by 
vote  that  the  use  of  proxies  would  not  be  allowed  in 
voting  at  the  election,  and  this  has  ever  since  served  as  a 
precedent. 

A  list  of  ninety-three  distinguished  guests  to  be  invited 
to  attend  the  banquet  was  approved. 

FIRST  ANNUAL  BANQUET. 

The  first  annual  reception  and  banquet  took  place  pur- 
suant to  date  at  the  Palmer  House.  At  5  o'clock  the  hotel 
parlors  were  thronged  by  many  votaries  of  society,  and  dis- 
tinguished guests  from  abroad. 

The  banquet  was  essentially  a  press  affair,  the  first 
of  its  kind  in  the  history  of  Chicago,  given  by  an  organ- 
ization of  journalists,  and  of  the  two  hundred  guests 
present  fully  four-fifths  were  directly  connected  with  the 
profession  of  journalism.  The  reception  lasted  from  5  to 
7  o'clock  P.M.,  when  the  guests  adjourned  to  the  hand- 
somely decorated  main  dining  hall,  and  proceeded  to  do 
justice  to  the  feast  prepared  by  the  hotel  chef. 

After  congratulating  the  Club  and  guests  upon  its 
material  progress  and  the  pleasant  features  of  the  anni- 
versary, President  Wilkie  said : 

"  While  I  congratulate  you  on  your  marvelous  growth, 
let  me  be  permitted  to  assert  the  belief  that  there  is 
nothing  in  it  akin  to  that  of  those  gigantic  fungi  which 


16  HISTORY    OF    THE 

grow  up  in  a  night,  and  before  sunset  have  disappeared 
from  existence.  I  know  that  such  is  not  your  destiny ; 
that  there  is  no  sinister  augury  in  the  rapidity  of  your 
development.  In  the  Mosaic  cosmogony  we  are  told  that 
the  great  planetary  system  grew  to  its  vast  dimensions  in  a 
single  day.  Nearly  fifty  centuries  have  rolled  away  since 
then,  and  the  myriad  members  of  that  system  yet 'revolve 
and  shine,  with  no  diminution  in  their  speed;  no  fading 
in  their  lustrous  glances.  Let  us  take  hope  from  the  fact 
that  what  is  soonest  ripe  is  not  always  soonest  rotten,  and 
there  may  be  for  us  some  of  the  perpetuity  of  this  Mosaic 
transaction." 

General  Frank  W.  Palmer  responded  to  the  sentiment 
of  "The  Press  and  the  President."  The  speaker  ably 
delineated  the  efforts  of  the  press  in  behalf  of  justice, 
liberty,  and  a  government  by  the  people  that  made  a 
President  possible,  saying  that  so  long^as  the  presidency 
of  the  United  States  should  be  justly  administered,  and  the 
press  conscientiously  conducted,  the  growth  of  govern- 
mental liberty  in  the  western  hemisphere  would  be  as 
limitless  as  the  hopes  and  aspirations  of  men. 

The  Hon.  Joseph  Medill  responded  to  "The  P.ess  of 
Chicago."  The  speaker  said  the  press  of  Chicago  spoke 
for  itself,  and  needed  no  one  to  sound  its  praise  or  defend 
its  reputation.  Some  of  the  characteristics  of  the  Chicago 
press  were,  notably,  its  fearless  exposure  of  humbugs  and 
charlatans;  its  enterprise;  its  liberality  in  incurring 
expense  in  the  gathering  of  news;  its  help  to  Chicago 
in  the  vast  growth  of  the  city;  and,  as  to  the  personnel  of 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  17 

the  press,  it  employed  and  drew  to  this  city  the  best  jour- 
nalistic talent  of  the  country. 

Mayor  Carter  H.  Harrison  responded  to  the  toast  of 
"  The  Press  and  the  City  of  Chicago." 

Mr.  John  Ritchie  responded  to  the  toast,  "  Stenog- 
raphy, the  Lightning  of  the  Press." 

James  W.  Sheahan,  to  "  The  Veterans  of  the  Press." 

The  Hon.  Emery  Storrs,  to  "  The  Press  and  the  Bar." 
In  the  course  of  his  remarks,  Mr.  Storrs  said  : 

"When  we  speak  of  the  freedom  of  the  press  we  usually 
think  of  it  as  something  we  have  always  enjoyed — a  privi- 
lege which  has  never  really  been  denied  to  us.  We  do  not 
remember,  and  perhaps  some  of  us  never  knew,  that  it  is 
the  youngest-born  of  all  our  great  privileges.  * 
That  freedom  has  been  achieved  by  the  joint  action  of  the 
press  itself,  the  bar  and  juries,  and  in  the  great  majority 
of  instances,  against  government  and  the  representatives 
of  government  upon  the  bench.  *  *  *  *  * 
There  is  nothing  in  this  world  so  good  that  is  not  a  little 
better  by  being  watched.  No  statesman  is  so  pure  and 
lofty  that  he  is  not  likely  to  become  still  purer  and  still 
loftier  so  long  as  he  feels  that  keen  eyes  are  upon  him  to 
observe  every  move  that  he  makes.  Dishonest  legislators 
fear  this  freedom  of  the  press,  for  the  exercise  of  that 
freedom  is  the  only  method  by  which  their  dishonest 
schemes  may  be  exposed.  *  *  *  * 

So  many  members  of  the  press  are  here  tonight  that  I 
venture  to  suggest  in  their  presence  and  to  them  some 
needed  legislation  on  the  law  of  libel.          *        *        * 
The  law  as  it  now  stands  is  injurious,  both  to  the  injured 


18  HISTORY   OF   THE 

person  and  to  the  press.  There  may  not  be  one  word  of 
truth  in  the  article  published,  nor  a  single  scintilla  of 
malice  in  the  publisher.  The  jury  may  reach  the  con- 
clusion that  no  damages  have  been  suffered  and  return 
their  verdict  for  six  cents,  the  result  of  which  is  the  prac- 
tical destruction  of  the  complaining  party.  But  under 
such  statute  as  I  have  named,  a  verdict  of  six  cents  would 
be  as  complete  and  perfect  a  vindication  as  a  verdict  for 
thousands  of  dollars.  Libel  suits  would  not  be  then  insti- 
tuted for  speculative  purposes,  and  the  newspaper  could 
afford  to  deal,  as  it  always  ought  to,  fairly,  justly  and 
generously  with  the  injured  individual.  Some  such  enact- 
ments are  necessary,  as  the  law  now  stands  in  this  country. 
The  growing  necessity  for  the  fullest  and  largest  discussion 
of  public  measures,  and  the  demand  of  the  people  to  know 
about  public  men  all  that  they  ought  to  know  to  wisely 
and  intelligently  judge  concerning  them,  renders  any 
return  to  the  bad  old  times  utterly  impossible.  *  *  * 
Freedom  of  the  press  is  as  essential  as  the  right  of  trial  by 
jury,  and  without  it  suffrage  will  be  a  failure,  for  it  would 
not  be  possible  for  suffrage  to  be  intelligent." 

The  speaker  was  loudly  applauded  upon  the  close  of 
his  remarks. 

Gov.  Eli  Murray,  of  Utah,  took  the  place  in  the  list 
of  speakers  accredited  to  Col.  Charles  A.  Taylor,  of  the 
Boston  Globe,  who  was  detained  in  the  East.  The  Gov- 
ernor desired  the  press  of  Chicago  to  leave  nothing 
undone  until  Utah  should  be  free  from  polygamy  and 
admitted  into  the  Union,  that  there  might  be  an  un- 
broken chain  of  states  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific. 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  19 

The  Hon.  C.  C.  Bonney,  of  Chicago,  responded  to 
the  sentiment,  "The  Press  and  the  Government"  ;  the 
Hon.  Henry  Watterson,  of  the  Louisville  Courier-Journal, 
to  "The  Press  of  Dixie"  ;  Herman  Raster,  Esq.,  of  the 
Illinois  Stoats  Zeitung,  to  "  The  German  Press";  C.  G. 
Siebenech,  of  the  Pittsburgh  Chronicle,  to  "  The  Press  of 
Pittsburgh,  the  Gate  City  of  the  Continent  "  ;  the  Hon. 
F.  A.  Eastman,  to  "  The  Bucolic  Press";  George  W. 
Peck,  of  Milwaukee,  to  "The  Press  and  the  Ladies"; 
the  Rev.  Dr.  H.  W.  Thomas,  to  "The  Press  and  the 
Pulpit,  Cooperating  for  the  Betterment  of  the  People." 

A  number  of  journalists  and  invited  guests  abroad, 
who  were  unable  to  attend  the  banquet,  sent  messages  of 
regret,  among  the  number  Oswald  Ottendorfer,  of  the 
New  York  Staats  Zeitung ;  Samuel  Bowles,  of  the  Spring- 
field, Mass.,  Republican;  Edwin  L.  Godkin,  of  the  New 
York  Nation;  Whitelaw  Reid,  John  W.  Forney,  George 
William  Curtis,  Charles  Dudley  Warner ;  R.  M.  Pulsifer, 
of  the  Boston  Herald ;  Dr.  George  L.  Miller,  of  the 
Omaha  Herald;  Thomas  W.  Knox,  of  New  York ;  Fred 
Hassaurek,  of  Cincinnati;  J.  R.  McLean,  of  the  Cincin- 
nati Enquirer ;  Horace  White,  of  New  York;  Robert  J. 
Burdette,  C.  M.  Goodsell ;  Thomas  B.  Connery,  of  the 
New  York  Herald ;  Charles  M.  Walker,  of  the  Indian- 
apolis Journal ;  Col.  Robert  G.  Ingersoll,  Carl  Schurz, 
D.  N.  Lament,  George  Alfred  Townsend ;  Joseph  B.  Mc- 
Cullagh,  of  the  St.  Louis  Globe-Democrat,  and  John  C. 
Hennessy,  of  New  York.  Archibald  Forbes,  who  was 


20  HISTORY    OF   THE 

tarrying  at  Hamilton,  Ont.,  on  his  lecture  tour  through 
America,  also  expressed  his  regrets  at  being  unable  to 
attend,  as  did  the  Hon.  Wilbur  F.  Storey,  who  was  indis- 
posed. 

HARTFORD,  December  29. 

I  have  been  away  for  a  fortnight,  and  I  find  on  my  return  your 
pleasing  invitation  to  be  one  of  the  Press  Club's  guests,  January  15. 
I  should  vastly  like  to  be  there,  but,  even  if  other  circumstances  did 
not  bar  me  from  going,  I  should  be  barred  anyway  by  the  formidable 
size  of  the  trip  in  this  mid-winter  weather. 

I  was  glad  to  be  remembered  by  the  gentlemen  of  the  Club,  but  if 
I  had  been  overlooked,  I  wouldn't  have  taken  it  as  a  cold  wave,  but 
only  as  an  oversight,  for  there  has  been  a  long  interval  since  we  fore- 
gathered there.  (To  give  one  the  "  cool  shake"  is  vulgar  and  slangy; 
I  use  the  other  phrase  in  the  interest  of  refinement  and  in  deference  to 
the  weather.)  I  was  glad  to  be  remembered,  because  I  had  not 
slacked  up  in  my  remembering  the  boys,  and  one  likes  such  things  to 
be  mutual,  and  I  was  also  glad  because  the  circumstances  of  my  visit 
out  there  a  year  ago  were  such  that  I  arrogate  to  myself  as  near  a  kin- 
ship to  the  Club  as  anyone  may  who  is  not  an  actual  member  of  the 
family. 

With  the  heartiest  congratulations  upon  the  success  achieved  by 
your  organization  thus  far,  and  with  best  wishes  for  its  continued  pros- 
perity, I  am  truly  yours, 

MARK  TWAIN. 

OFFICE  OF  THE  BOSTON  "GLOBE,"  January  12. 
Many  thanks  for  your  kind  invitation  to  the  first  annual  banquet  of 
the  Press  Club  of  Chicago.  I  regret  that  I  cannot  be  present.  We 
recently  issued  the  Boston  Daily  Globe  dated  one  hundred  years 
ahead,  or  in  January,  1980.  The  paper  was  crowded  then  when  we 
"  made  up,"  as  papers  are  now,  and  I  respectfully"  submit  for  your 
consideration  some  pieces  of  news  which  were  crowded  out,  and  which 


PRESS   CLUB    OF   CHICAGO.  21 

we  presume  would  have  interested  Chicago  people.    They  are  submitted 
with  my  best  wishes  for  all  present. 

Sincerely  yours,  CHARLES  H.  TAYLOR. 

IN   A    HUNDRED   YEARS. 

After  items  about  the  movements  of  Bishop  Ingersoll,  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Chicago  District,  who  lectured  in  the 
Southern  Circuit,  Washington,  on  "  The  Mistakes  of  My  Ancestors," 
the  statement  that  upon  the  receipt  of  the  census  of  Chicago's  1,647 
wards,  showing  a  population  of  15,665,714,  thousands  of  the  older 
citizens  of  St.  Louis  committed  suicide ;  an  estimate  based  on  sworn 
statements  of  the  circulation  of  the  older  Chicago  dailies  in  which  they 
ranged  from  863,994  to  863,999  each,  and  the  comment  that  the  new 
law  which  obliged  proprietors  to  divide  fifty  per  cent  of  their  profits 
with  editors  and  reporters  was  working  smoothly,  and  had  made  a  per- 
ceptible increase  in  the  number  of  good  trotting  horses  in  the  city,  there 
came,  as  follows,  an  account  of  the 

ONE    HUNDRED    AND    FIRST    ANNUAL    BANQUET    OF    THE 
CHICAGO    PRESS    CLUB. 

Chicago,  Jan.  15,  1981. — The  one  hundred  and  first  annual  banquet 
of  the  Press  Club  of  Chicago  has  proved  an  overwhelming  success. 
The  new  dining  room  of  the  Palmer  House,  which  will  seat  nine 
thousand  people,  was  completely  filled,  more  than  four  thousand  ladies 
being  in  attendance.  The  company  represented  more  wealth  than  any 
assembly  of  similar  size  ever  gathered  in  any  dining  room  or  hall  in 
this  country.  There  were  nine  hundred  and  seventeen  hundred  editors 
present,  who  were  worth  from  $1,000,000  to  $5,000,000  each,  and  it 
was  estimated  that  the  diamonds  worn  by  the  ladies  were  worth 
$2,000,000.  Representatives  of  the  press  from  Paris,  London,  Japan, 
and  other  distant  points  came  in  during  the  evening,  arriving  by  the 
different  asrial  lines.  The  literary  programme  was,  as  usual,  equal  to 
about  twenty  issues  of  Harper's,  Scribner's  and  the  Atlantic  Monthly 
combined,  and  gave  unbounded  satisfaction.  The  ladies  claimed  half 
the  offices  and  were  awarded  two-thirds  of  them,  with  the  usual  gal- 
lantry which  has  always  characterized  the  Chicago  man. 

The  Club  has  about  J&2,ooo,oco  in  the  treasury,  and  it  was  voted  to 


22  HISTORY    OF   THE 

make  the  next,  or  one  hundred  and  second,  re-union  an  occasion  when 
the  presidents,  kings,  queens  and  rulers  of  every  sort  and  the  leading 
men  of  all  nations  might  be  brought  together.  A  committee  of  gentle- 
men of  the  Club,  who  have  a  personal  or  bowing  acquaintance  with 
the  various  rulers  of  the  world,  was  selected  to  extend  the  invitations. 
To  insure  the  most  rigid  honesty  in  the  Club,  the  surplus  in  the  treas- 
ury was  divided  among  the  members  previous  to  adjournment. 

CONGRATULATORY   TELEGRAMS. 

Shortly  before  the  annual  banquet  the  following  passed 
in  behalf  of  the  Press  Club  of  Chicago  to  the  New  York 
Press  Club,  on  the  occasion  of  the  eighth  annual  dinner  of 
that  organization  : 

CHICAGO  PRESS  CLUB, 
H.   Clay  Lukens,  Esq.:  CHICAGO,  January  2,  1881. 

MY  DEAR  SIR, --This  organization  gladly  acknowledges  the  New 
York  Press  Club  as  its  prototype,  and  takes  a  fraternal  interest  in  the 
pronounced  success  of  the  parent.  The  formal  greetings  of  this  Club 
will  be  sent  you  by  telegraph  on  Thursday  afternoon,  F.  B.  Wilkie, 
our  President,  having  agreed  with  me  to  send  a  dispatch. 
Very  sincerely,  ELWYN  A.  BARRON, 

Secretary  Chicago  Press  Club. 

TELEGRAM  FROM  CHICAGO  PRESS  CLUB. 

CHICAGO,  January  5,  1881. 
Secretary  Press  Club,  St.  Nicholas  Hotel,  New  "York  : 

The  Press  Club  of  Chicago  sends  fraternal  greeting.  Clubs  are 
trumps,  and  with  one  bower  held  in  Chicago  and  the  other  in  New 
York,  America  will  play  a  lone  hand  against  the  rest  of  the  universe 
and  make  it,  sure.  CHICAGO  PRESS  CLUB. 

At  the  meeting  of  January  20,  1881,  it  was  resolved  to 
require  the  Treasurer  to  give  a  bond  of  §10,000  with  two 
sureties,  and  the  committee  having  in  hand  the  revision  of 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  23 

the  Constitution  were  instructed  to  make  this  a  constitu- 
tional requirement.  It  was  subsequently  decided  to 
require  a  bond  of  the  Financial  Secretary  in  the  sum  of 
$2,000,  with  two  sureties. 

SECOND   ANNUAL   ELECTION. 

The  second  annual  election  of  officers  took  place 
January  20,  1881,  and  the  result  on  president  was  a  tie 
vote  between  Franc  B.  Wilkie  and  W.  K.  Sullivan,  each 
receiving  48  votes.  The  balance  of  the  Sullivan  ticket 
was  elected  as  follows  : 

FIRST  VICE-PRESIDENT:  SECOND  VICE-PRESIDENT: 

RODNEY  WELCH,   The   Times.        GUY  MAGEE,   The   Tribune. 

THIRD  VICE-PRESIDENT: 
JOHN  J.  FLINN,   The  Daily  News. 

TREASURER  : 
J.  B.  BRADWELL. 

RECORDING  SECRETARY:  FINANCIAL  SECRETARY: 

ELVVYN  A.  BARRON.  JOHN  M.  DANDY. 

EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE  : 
J.  R.  DUNLOP,  T.  C.  MACMILLAN, 

The   Times.  The  Inter  Ocean. 

H.  F.  DONOVAN,  W.  H.  FRENCH, 

The  Journal.  Western  Associated  Press. 

R.  A.  PATTERSON, 
The   Tribune. 


24  HISTORY   OF   THE 

A  special  election  for  president  was  held  January  26,  at 
which  69  votes  were  cast,  W.  K  Sullivan  receiving  55  ; 
balance  scattering. 

Prior  to  the  special  election  Mr.  Wilkie  gave  up  the 
contest  and  had  a  friendly  understanding  with  Mr.  Sulli- 
van, he  having  learned  that  he  was  to  go  abroad  and 
represent  The  Times  in  London.  In  April  following, 
when  Mrs.  Wilkie  departed  to  join  her  husband,  the  Club 
tendered  her  a  farewell  reception  and  accompanied  her 
departure  with  regrets  and  good  wishes,  in  return  for  the 
deep  interest  she  had  ever  evinced  in  the  welfare  of  the 
Club,  and  her  willing  and  valuable  assistance  rendered  on 
every  social  occasion. 

January  30,  President  Sullivan  appointed  standing 
committees  for  the  year  as  follows  : 

LIBRARY  COMMITTEE. — Theo.  Gestefeld,  E.  H.  Talbot,  John  J. 
Flinn,  Jere  Mahoney,  Collins  Shackelford,  James  Sullivan. 

ENTERTAINMENT  COMMITTEE.— M.  E.  Stone,  T.  Z.  Cowles,  E.  A. 
Barren,  S.  V.  Steele,  Wm.  Colebrook. 

RECEPTION  COMMITTEE. — W.  T.  Hall,  F.  O.  Bennett,  Washington 
Hesing,  J.  W.  Scott,  Elliott  Durand. 

VISITING  COMMITTEE. — W.  H.  Hicks,  C.  E.  Nixon,  J.  E.  Wilkie. 

Messrs.  Stone,  Magee  and  Cunningham  were  appointed 
a  special  committee  to  procure  an  oil  portrait  of  the 
retiring  president,  and  since  this  time  the  custom  has  pre- 
vailed annually,  fine  oil  portraits  of  all  the  ex-presidents 
now  adorning  the  walls  of  the  Club  rooms. 


PRESS   CLUB    OF   CHICAGO.  25 

February  13,  the  Club  extended  by  vote  thanks  to  Mrs. 
Wilbur  F.  Storey  for  a  portrait  of  her  distinguished  hus- 
band, executed  by  herself.  Thanks  were  also  extended  to 
Messrs.  Liebling  and  Newell  for  a  contribution  of  engrav- 
ings. 

At  this  meeting  the  initiation  fee  was  increased  to  $10. 

Resolutions  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  Ernst  Buhlert, 
a  promising  German  journalist,  lately  deceased,  were 
adopted  and  spread  upon  the  records. 

May  i,  a  new  lease  was  effected  of  the  rooms  where 
the  Club  has  made  its  home  from  the  start. 

William  T.  Hall  was  made  Librarian  of  the  Club. 

By  the  adoption  of  the  new  charter  the  officers  became 
ex-officio  members  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

SECOND   ENTERTAINMENT. 

The  second  annual  entertainment  of  the  Club  took 
place  at  Central  Music  Hall,  Tuesday  evening,  October 
n,  1 88 1,  and  was  no  less  a  pronounced  success  than  its 
forerunner  of  a  year  before. 


26  HISTORY   OF   THE 


PROGRAMME. 

1.  ORGAN — Grand  Offertoire  de  Ste.  Cecile,    ------    Batiste. 

MR.  H.  CLARENCE  EDDY. 

2.  PART  SONG,       -----' Selected. 

APOLLO  CLUB. 

3.  CORNET  SOLO — Fantasie,        --------        Hartman. 

SIGNOR  LIBERATI. 

4.  ARIA — O  Mio  Fernando,        --------        Donizetti. 

MISS  HARRIET  C.  McLAIN. 

5.  VIOLIN  SOLO — Hungarian  Airs,     --------    Ernst. 

MR.  ADOLPH   ROSENBECKER. 

6.  RECITATION — Aux  Italiens, Meredith 

MR.  SAMUEL  KAYSER. 

7.  VOCAL  QUARTET — The  Star  of  Love,     -------      Buck. 

ST.  CECILIA  QUARTET. 

Miss  Ettie  Butler,  Mrs.  Clifford  Williams,  Mrs.  Frank  Hall, 
Mrs.  Jenny  T.  Kempton. 


8.     PIANO-  \a  Last  Hope,      - 
<•  b  Le  Tourbillon, 


Gottschalk. 

Goldbeck. 

MR.  EMIL  LIEBL1NG. 


9.     TENOR  SOLO — Dost  Thou  Remember  ?     ------     Liebling. 

MR.  CHARLES  A.  KNORR. 

10.    STACCATO  POLKA,      - -      Mulder. 

MLLE.  MARIE  LITTA. 

INTERMISSION. 


PRESS   CLUB    OF   CHICAGO.  27 


1 .  ORGAN— Overture— William  Tell,      -------      Rossini. 

MR.  H.  CLARENCE  EDDY. 

2.  BARITONE  SOLO — How  Fair  Art  Thou,        -        -  -        -       White. 

MR.  JOHN  E.  McWADE. 

3.  AVE  MARIA — With  Violin,  Piano  and  Organ,         -  Gounod. 

MISS  EMMA  HECKLE. 

4.  READING, Selected. 

MISS  ANNA  MORGAN. 

5.  QUARTET — The  Fisher  Boy,       --------       Braun. 

CHICKERING  QUARTET. 
Chas.  A.  Knorr,     Charles  H.  Clark,     John  E.  Me  Wade,     Chas.  T.  Noble. 

6.  ARIA — Lucia  di  Lammermoor,        -------      Donizetti. 

MLLE.  MARIE  LITTA. 
With  Flute  Obligate,  MR.  OSCAR  OESTERLE. 

7.  RECITATION — Sheridan's  Ride, Buchanan  Reid. 

MR.  CHARLES  R.  THORNE,  JR. 

8.  BALLAD — Forever  and  Forever,      --------       Tosti. 

MISS  HARRIET  C.  McLAIN. 

9.  THE  VAGABONDS,       -  -        Trowbridge. 

MR.  JOHN  McCULLOUGH. 

10.  BARITONE  SOLO — The  Yeoman's  Wedding  Song,     -  Poniatowsky. 

MR.  GEORGE  H.  BRODERICK. 

11.  THE  STAR  SPANGLED  BANNER,     - -        Key. 

MR.  THOMAS  W.  KEENE. 


28  HISTORY   OF   THE 

SECOND   BANQUET. 

The  second  annual  banquet  occurred  at  the  Palmer 
House,  Saturday,  January  14,  1882,  on  which  occasion 
the  following  was  the  programme  of  exercises : 


SECOND  ANNUAL  BANQUET 

OF  THE 

CHICAGO    PRESS   CLUB 

AT   THB 

PALMER  HOUSE,  SATURDAY,  JAN.  14,  1882. 


PROGRAMME  OF  EXERCISES. 

PRESIDENT'S  ADDRESS, W.  K.  SULLIVAN. 

PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES,      ...          W.  E.  CURTIS. 

CITY  OF  CHICAGO, -       -    J.  B.  HINMAN. 

VETERANS  OF  THE  PRESS,     -  -        -   ANDREW  SHUMAN. 

NEWSPAPER  REPORTER, J.  W.  SHEAHAN. 

AMERICAN  PRESS  IN  EUROPE.     -       -       -  FRANC  B.  WILKIE. 

PROGRESS  OF  THE  PRESS,          ...  -      M.  E.  STONE. 

Reading  of  acknowledgments  and  regrets  from  invited  guests. 
THE  NEWS-GATHERER,  -         JOHN  RITCHIE. 

GERMAN  PRESS, THEODORE  GESTEFELD. 

RELIGIOUS  PRESS,      ....  -      LEANDER  STONE. 

THE  PRESS  AND  THE  STAGE,    -  -    W.  D.  EATON. 

THE  PRESS  AND  THE  BAR,    -  -     H.  W.  THOMSON. 

SUBURBAN  PRESS, -   GEO.  W.  PECK. 

THE  LADIES, JOHN  M.  DANDY. 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  29 

THIRD   ANNUAL   ELECTION. 
The  officers  elected  January  19,  1882,  were  : 

PRESIDENT  : 
SAMUEL  J.  MEDILL,  The  Tribune. 

FIRST  VICE-PRESIDENT  :  SECOND  VICE-PRESIDENT  : 

J.  B.  HINMAN,  The  Times.  W.  D.  EATON,  The  Herald. 

THIRD  VICE-PRESIDENT  : 
W.  E.  CURTIS,  The  Inter  Ocean. 

SECRETARY  :  FINANCIAL  SECRETARY  : 

ELWYN  A.  BARRON,  EDGAR  L.  WAKEMAN, 

The  Inter  Ocean.       Carres.  The  Louisville  Courier-Journal. 

TREASURER  : 
J.  B.  BRADWELL,  The  Legal  News. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS  : 

J.  H.  BALLARD,  The  Inter  Ocean,         F.  S.  DAVIDSON,  The  Times, 

N.  A.  REED,  Jr.,  The  Daily  News,          O.  H.  PERRY,  The  Journal, 

R.  W.  RANSOM,  The  Tribune. 

HOUSE  COMMITTEE: 

H.  B,  HUMPHREY,  The  Times,  W.  T.  HALL,  The  Tribune, 

L.  W.  BUSBY,  The  Inter  Ocean. 


30  HISTORY   OF   THE 

THE  THIRD  ENTERTAINMENT. 

The  Club  this  year  determined  to  change  its  style  of 
entertainment  and  give  a  lecture  by  a  prominent  speaker. 
The  Hon.  Emory  A.  Storrs  was  about  to  return  from  a 
trip  to  Europe,  and  it  was  deemed  advisable  to  have 
him  give  a  lecture  on  his  experiences  while  abroad.  He 
was  cabled  about  the  matter  and  replied  favorably.  When 
he  returned  he  lectured  for  the  Press  Club  in  Central 
Music  Hall,  October  23,  and  the  house  was  completely 
filled.  The  stage  was  occupied  by  the  leading  citizens, 
and  Mr.  Storrs  was  introduced  by  the  Hon.  Joseph 
Medill.  His  lecture  was  entitled  "  Ninety  Days  in 
Europe,"  and  was  replete  with  wit  and  humor.  The 
programme  was  as  follows : 

THIRD  ANNUAL  ENTERTAINMENT 

UNDER  THE  AUSPICES   OF  THE 

CHICAGO    PRESS    CLUB 

AT 

CENTRAL  MUSIC  HALL, 
MONDAY  EVENING,  OCTOBER  23,  1882. 


THE  HON.  EMORY  A.  STORRS 

WILL   LECTURE   ON 

NINETY    DAYS    IN    EUROPE. 


ORGAN  PRELUDE  by  H.  CLARENCE  EDDY. 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  31 

This  lecture  was  a  great  success,  and  netted  over 
$1,600  to  the  treasury  of  the  Club.  Mr.  Storrs  made 
no  charge  for  his  services. 

FOURTH  ANNUAL  ELECTION. 

There  was  practically  no  opposition  to  the  ticket 
elected  January  4,  1883,  W.  E.  Curtis,  of  The  Inter 
Ocean,  being  elected  President,  receiving  forty -nine  votes, 
and  but  a  few  scattering  votes  being  cast  in  opposition  to 
the  balance  of  the  ticket.  The  ticket  as  elected  was  as 
follows : 

PRESIDENT: 
W.  E.  CURTIS,   The  Inter  Ocean. 

FIRST  VICE-PRESIDENT  :  SECOND  VICE-PRESIDENT  : 

JOHN  F.  BALLANTYNE,  N.  A.  REED,  JR., 

The  Herald.  The  Daily  News. 

THIRD  VICE-PRESIDENT  : 
MARTIN  J.  RUSSELL,  The  Times. 

SECRETARY  :  FINANCIAL  SECRETARY  : 

ROBERT  B.  PEATTIE,  EDGAR  L.  WAKEMAN, 

The  Herald.  Carres.  The  Louisville  Courier- Journal. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS  : 

SAMUEL  V.  STEELE,  The  Times,     J.  H.  BALLARD,  The  Inter  Ocean, 
W.  A.  TAYLOR,  The  Tribune,        O.  H.  PERRY,  The  Journal, 
JOHN  RITCHIE,  The  Associated  Press. 

HOUSE  COMMITTEE  : 

E.  FITZGERALD,  The  Tribune,     W.  L.  SEVERING,  The  Inter  Ocean, 
W.  M.  KNOX,  The  Herald. 


32  HISTORY    OF   THE 

The  new  officers  were  installed  January  28,  1883,  with 
the  exception  of  Mr.  Wakeman,  who  sent  in  a  communica- 
tion stating  that  owing  to  enforced  absence  from  the  city 
he  could  not  serve.  Mr.  Wakeman's  resignation  was  ac- 
cepted, and  the  following  resolutions  passed  : 

WHEREAS,  Mr.  Edgar  L.  Wakeman,  reflected  Financial  Secre- 
tary of  the  Press  Club  of  Chicago  at  the  last  general  election,  finds  it 
necessary,  for  business  reasons,  to  resign  his  position ;  therefore,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  in  the  loss  of  Mr.  Wakeman,  in  his  official 
capacity,  the  Club  is  deprived  of  one  of  its  most  energetic  and  valued 
officers,  many  of  the  fruits  of  whose  unselfish  striving  for  the  welfare  of 
the  Club  we  are  today  enjoying.  Be  it  further 

Resolved,  That  in  parting  with  Mr.  Wakeman  as  our  Financial 
Secretary  we  express  our  deepest  regret  for  the  necessity  making  his 
retirement  imperative. 

President  Curtis  appointed  the  following  standing 
committees  : 

ENTERTAINMENT  COMMITTEE. — F.  B.  Wilkie,  W.  T.  Hall,  Slason 
Thompson,  John  M.  Dandy,  Frank  E.  Johnson. 

VISITING  COMMITTEE.— A.  F.  Shuman,  W.  T.  C.  Hyde,  W.  H. 
Freeman. 

LIBRARY  COMMITTEE. — E.  H.  Talbot,  C.  M.  Pepper,  James  Mait- 
land,  John  B.  Adams,  C.  M.  Faye. 

Messrs.  J.  H  Ballard,  J.  B.  Hinman,  F.  B.  Wilkie 
and  C.  M.  Faye  were  appointed  a  Special  Committee  to 
secure  a  sitting  of  Samuel  J.  Medill,  late  President  of  the 
Club,  for  an  oil  portrait  of  himself. 

Mr.  R.  B.  Peattie  was  elected  Acting  Secretary. 

February  4,  a  special  meeting  was  held  for  the  election 
of  a  Financial  Secretary,  and  on  motion  the  Secretary  was 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  33 

instructed  to  cast  the  ballot  of  the  Club  for  Mr.  George 
E.  Wright,  for  the  position,  which  was  done. 

March  4,  the  question  of  joining  the  International 
League  of  Press  Clubs  came  up,  on  a  resolution  offered 
by  N.  A.  Reed,  Jr.  After  several  desultory  motions  the 
matter  was  referred  to  a  Special  Committee,  composed  of 
Messrs.  Reed,  Thompson,  Perry,  Wakeman  and  Ballard, 
for  future  report.  This  committee  reported  March  25, 
citing  numerous  objections  to  the  League,  and  no  advan- 
tages to  the  Press  Club  of  Chicago  in  joining  it.  The 
Secretary  was  instructed  to  communicate  with  the  New 
York  Press  Club,  declining,  on  behalf  of  the  Press  Club 
of  Chicago,  to  enter  the  League,  and  to  inform  the  New 
York  Press  Club,  at  the  same  time,  that  if  the  original 
intention  of  holding  the  first  League  Convention  in  Chi- 
cago was  adhered  to,  this  Club  would  appoint  a  Com- 
mittee on  Reception  and  Arrangements  and  render  all 
assistance  possible,  and  extend  the  privileges  of  the  Club 
rooms  to  visitors. 

March  25,  on  motion  of  Mr.  Wilkie,  resolutions  were 
adopted  concerning  the  death  of  Mr.  Frank  Hatton,  son 
of  Joseph  Hatton,  an  honorary  member  of  the  Club,  who 
died  in  Borneo. 

October  28,  Charles  D.  Wright  was  elected  Acting 
Secretary,  vice  Peattie,  resigned,  and  November  4  Mr. 
Wright  was  formally  elected  Secretary. 

Messrs.  Wilkie,  Reed  and  O'Neill  were  appointed  a 
Special  Committee  to  visit  sick  members. 


34  HISTORY   OF   THE 

November  4,  a  letter  from  Joseph  Medill  was  received 
and  read,  expressing  satisfaction  with  the  portrait  of  the 
late  President,  Samuel  J.  Medill,  which  portrait  was  then 
on  exhibition  at  the  Leland  Hotel. 

Thanks  were  extended  to  the  Boston  Ideal  Opera 
Company  and  Miss  Ober  for  their  proposal  to  sing  in 
concert  for  the  Club,  Friday  afternoon,  November  16,  and 
to  Mr.  John  A.  Hamlin  for  the  tender  of  the  use  of  the 
Grand  Opera  House,  on  that  occasion.  Messrs.  Dandy, 
Hall,  Bradwell,  Sullivan  and  Cowles  were  appointed  a 
Committee  on  Programme  and  Entertainment. 

November  1 1 ,  a  special  memorial  meeting  was  held  to 
take  suitable  action  in  reference  to  the  death  of  Samuel  J. 
Medill,  late  the  honored  President  of  the  Club,  the 
account  of  which  is  memorialized  near  the  close  of  this 
volume. 


PRESS    CLUB    OF   CHICAGO.  35 

THE  FOURTH  ANNUAL  ENTERTAINMENT 

OF    THE 

CHICAGO     PRESS     CLUB 

AT   THB 

GRAND  OPERA  HOUSE, 
FRIDAY  AFTERNOON,  NOVEMBER  16,  1883. 


PROGRAMME. 

OVERTURE — Raymond,   ----------       -Thomas. 

QUARTETTE — Song  of  the  Lark,         ....-.-    Mendelssohn. 

MISS  ULMAR,  MISS  BURTON,  MR.  MORSELL  and  MR.  BARNABEE. 
ROMANZA — Perche  mi  Volga,         ----...--    Rizzo. 

MR.  KARL. 
SONG — Tompkin's  Silver  Wedding,    --        -        -        -        -        -       H.  M.  DOTIJ. 

MR.  BARNABEE. 
COMEDIETTA — Come  Here,    --------- 

MME.  JANAUSCHEK. 

First  time  in  four  years. 
SONG — Let  All  Obey,          ----------         Leach. 

MR.  MCDONALD. 

DUET — From  "  Lakme,"         .-..-....          Delibes. 
MISS  STONE  and  MISS  ULMAR. 

_         (  La  Fileuse,  ----------          Raff 

PIANO  SOLO  \  „ 

(  Scherzo,  Op.  31,-----.--  Chopin. 

MR.  LIEBLING. 
SONG — The  Two  Grenadiers,       --------        Schumann. 

MR.  WHITNEY. 

SKETCH  Original. 

MR.  FREDERICK  McCABE. 

PART  SONG, Selected. 

MALE  VOICES  FROM  "  IDEAL  OPERA." 

PRAYER— From  the  "  Prophet,"     --------    Meyerbeer. 

MISS  PHILLIPS. 
ROMANZA — Domain,  ..........      Palloni. 

MR.  MORSELL. 
GRAND  CHORUS— Hail,  Poetry !     -  ......        Sullivan. 

BOSTON  IDEAL  COMPANY. 
MUSICAL  DIRECTOR,        -        -        MR.  S.  L.  STUDLEY. 


36  HISTORY   OF   THE 

November  25,  the  Executive  Committee  .reported  the 
net  proceeds  of  the  entertainment  to  date,  as  $711.65. 
This  was  subsequently  increased  to  about  $1,000. 

Thanks  were  formally  extended  by  vote  to  John  A. 
Hamlin,  the  Boston  Ideal  Company,  Madame  Janau- 
schek,  Fred  Maccabe,  the  Weber  Piano  Company,  John 
B.  Jeffery,  W.  D.  Allen,  J.  C.  Craig,  Charles  Kreuger  and 
Charles  Reisig. 

Saturday  evening,  November  31,  a  reception  was 
tendered  to  the  Boston  Ideals,  Miss  Ober  and  Madame 
Janauschek,  in  the  Club  rooms.  The  attendance  was 
large  and  the  affair  a  complete  social  success. 

November  25,  Mr.  George  Mills,  editor  of  the  Ameri- 
can Journalist,  addressed  the  Club  in  the  interest  of  that 
publication.  It  was  indorsed,  and  its  encouragement 
recommended  to  journalists. 

December  23,  Mr.  W.  K.  Sullivan  presented  to  the 
Club  a  portrait  of  the  Hon.  George  Schneider,  founder 
of  the  Illinois  Staats  Zeitung,  and  a  life  member  of  the 
Club.  Speeches  eulogistic  of  Mr.  Schneider's  pioneer 
efforts  in  journalism  and  his  success  were  made,  and  a 
vote  of  thanks  tendered  him  for  his  portrait. 

December  23,  it  was  decided  to  hold  the  annual  ban- 
quet on  January  5,  at  5  o'clock  P.M.,  and  Messrs.  Wilkie, 
Harper,  Bates,  Frazer  and  Ballantyne  were  appointed  a 
Committee  on  Arrangements. 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  37 

FIFTH  ANNUAL  ELECTION. 

The  annual  election  of  officers  was  held  January  3, 
1884,  from  4  till  9  o'clock.  On  this  occasion  there  were 
two  caucus  tickets  in  the  field.  Mr.  Frank  S.  Davidson, 
of  the  Western  Associated  Press,  who  was  named  for 
President  on  one  ticket,  refused  to  stand  as  a  candidate 
after  the  polls  had  been  open  some  time.  Mr.  Davidson 
received  39  votes. 

The  following  were  the  officers  elected  : 

PRESIDENT  : 
JAMES  B.  BRADWELL,  The  Legal  News. 

FIRST  VICE-PRESIDENT  :  SECOND  VICE-PRESIDENT  : 

VICTOR  F.  LAWSON,  GUY  MAGEE, 

The  Daily  News.  The  Times. 

THIRD  VICE-PRESIDENT: 
T.  C.  MACMILLAN,  The  Inter  Ocean. 

RECORDING  SECRETARY  : 
C.  D.  WRIGHT,  The  Inter  Ocean. 

FINANCIAL  SECRETARY  : 
JOHN  M'GOVERN,  The  Tribune. 

TREASURER : 
JAMES  W.  SCOTT,  The  Herald. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS : 

LEO  CANMAN,  The  Tribune,  W.  S.  WALKER,  The  Times, 

THOMAS  O'NEILL,  The  Herald,        E.  R.  DILLINGHAM,  The  Times, 
W.  M.  KNOX,  The  Daily  News. 

HOUSE  COMMITTEE  : 

J.  W.  BINGHAM,  7^he  Daily  News,     E.  J.  McPHELiM,  The  Tribune, 
F.  B.  WILKIE,  The  Times. 


38  HISTORY    OF   THE 

January  27,  the  Banquet  Committee  reported  that  the 
festivities  at  the  Grand  Pacific  Hotel  had  been  attended 
by  but  seventy-one  members  of  the  Club,  and  the  banquet 
had  not  been  as  brilliant  and  successful  as  its  predecessors 
of  former  years. 

Mr.  Knox  resigned  from  the  new  Board  of  Directors, 
and  at  the  next  meeting  Mr.  J.  Harry  Ballard  of  The  Inter 
Ocean  was  elected  to  fill  the  vacancy. 

March  23,  a  vote  of  thanks  was  tendered  the  Hon. 
John  Wentworth  for  a  striking  and  excellent  portrait  of 
himself,  which  he  had  presented  to  the  Club  in  com- 
pliance with  request. 

Treasurer  Scott,  who  had  in  hand  the  furnishing  of  a 
new  library  and  reading  room,  reported  that  an  anony- 
mous friend  had  presented  a  carpet,  and  the  remainder  of 
the  fittings  would  be  put  in  free  of  charge.  A  vote  of 
thanks  was  extended  Mr.  Scott  for  his  efforts  in  behalf  of 
the  Club. 

April  27,  a  vote  of  thanks  was  extended  to  the  Hon. 
Joseph  Medill  for  his  portrait ;  to  Mrs.  J.  B.  Jeffery,  for 
gifts  to  beautify  the  Club  rooms,  and  to  Samuel  L. 
Clemens,  Esq.,  for  a  complete  set  of  his  works. 

September  28,  Mr.  R.  J.  Murphy  was  made  acting 
Secretary,  vice  Mr.  Wright,  resigned,  and  at  the  next 
meeting  Mr.  Murphy  was  duly  elected  Secretary. 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  39 

THE   FIFTH    ENTERTAINMENT. 

Mr.  Canman,  of  the  Entertainment  Committee,  re- 
ported that  "Josh  Billings"  had  offered  to  lecture  for 
the  benefit  of  the  Club  at  Central  Music  Hall,  Thanks- 
giving evening,  November  26.  Owing  to  illness  this 
entertaining  lecturer  could  not  keep  his  engagement,  and 
Mr.  James  Whitcomb  Riley,  the  "Hoosier  poet,"  lectured 
instead.  Prof.  Falk  presided  at  the  organ.  The  enter- 
tainment was  in  every  way  successful.  The  programme 
was  as  follows : 


40  HISTORY    OF   THE 

FIFTH   ANNUAL   ENTERTAINMENT 

OF   THE 

CHICAGO     PRESS     CLUB, 

AT 

CENTRAL   MUSIC   HALL, 
WEDNESDAY  EVENING,  NOV.  26,  1884. 


PROGRAMME. 

PART   I. 

1.  ORGAN  OVERTURE — "Oberon,"        -        -  Weber. 

PROF.  LOUIS  FALK. 

2.  HUMOROUS  LECTURE,    - 

MR.  JAMES  WHITCOMB  RILEY, 

Of  the  Indianapolis  Journal . 

((a)  "  Ecossaises,"         -        ...  -       Chopin. 

(  (6)  Variations  on  "  La  ci  Darem  la  Mano,"  -         Seeboeck. 

MR.  W.  C.  E.  SEEBOECK. 

4.  CAVATINA — Bel  Raggio,  "  Semiramide,"  Rossini. 

MISS  JENNIE   DUTTON. 

5.  ARIA — "  O  Possente  Magia  !  "        ....  Dinorah — Meyerbeer. 

MR.  GEORGE  SWEET. 


6.     PIANO. — "  Raphsodie  No.  14."  Liszt. 

MR.  W.  C.  E.  SEEBOECK. 


7.  SELECTION  — 

THATCHER,  PRIMROSE  &  WEST'S  MINSTREL  QUARTETTE. 

8.  SONG— "The  Village  Blacksmith's  Bride,"      -  -         Holzel. 

MISS  JENNIE  DUTTON. 

9.  BALLAD     -  Selected. 

MR.  GEORGE  SWEET. 

10.  RECITATION — "  Shamus  O'Brien," 

MR.  LAWRENCE   BARRETT. 

11.  SELECTION 

THATCHER,  PRIMROSE   &   WEST'S   QUARTETTE. 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  41 

SIXTH  ANNUAL  ELECTION. 

December  28,  on  motion  of  Mr.  Knox,  the  Club 
resolved  to  go  into  caucus  at  the  next  meeting  for  the 
purpose  of  nominating  a  list  of  officers  for  the  next  year, 
to  be  voted  for  at  the  annual  election.  The  caucus  was 
duly  held,  and  a  ticket  nominated,  which  was  defeated  in 
the  ensuing  election,  January  8,  1885. 

The  following  was  the  result  : 

PRESIDENT  : 

JOSEPH  R.  DUNLOP,   The  Inter  Ocean. 
FIRST  VICE-PRESIDENT :  SECOND  VICE-PRESIDENT: 

JOHN  M.  DANDY,  W.  M.  KNOX, 

The  Saturday  Evening  Herald.  The  Daily  News. 

THIRD  VICE-PRESIDENT: 
RODNEY  WELCH,    The   Times. 

FINANCIAL  SECRETARY: 
CHARLES  H.  DENNIS,   The  Daily  News. 

RECORDING  SECRETARY : 
W.  T.  HALL,  R.  J.  MURPHY, 

The   Tribune.  The  Journal, 

TREASURER: 
J.  B.  BRADWELL,   The  Legal  News. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS: 
EDGAR  L.  WAKEMAN,  W.  H.  HARPER, 

The  Current.  The  Inter  Ocean. 

LEO  CANMAN,  ARNOLD  PIERCE, 

The   Tribune.  The  Times. 

F.  O.  BENNETT,  At  large. 

HOUSE  COMMITTEE: 

E.  R.  DILLINGHAM,   The  Mail.  D.  E.  SASSEEN,  The  Times. 

WALTER  NEEF,   The  Associated  Press. 


42  HISTORY    OF    THE 

The  annual  entertainment  of  1884,  like  its  predecessors, 
was  a  grand  success  in  point  of  attractions,  attendance, 
and  management.  Many  noted  artists  volunteered  their 
services;  and  January  25,  1885,  the  Club  passed  formal 
votes  of  thanks  to  the  following  :  Mr.  George  B.  Carpen- 
ter, Miss  Jennie  Button,  Mrs.  Sasseen,  Lawrence  Barrett, 
George  Sweet,  J.  M.  W.  Jones  Co.,  Prof.  Louis  Falk, 
Prof.  Seeboeck,  Thatcher,  Primrose  &  West's  Minstrels, 
National  Printing  Company,  and  Broadway  &  Treyser. 

At  the  same  meeting  President  Dunlop  submitted  lists 
of  standing  committees  for  the  year,  as  follows : 

HOUSE  COMMITTEE. —  E.  R.  Dillingham,  Walter  Neef,  D.  E. 
Sasseen. 

ENTERTAINMENT  COMMITTEE. — J.  W.  Scott,  John  M.  Dandy, 
F.  E.  Johnson,  Washington  Hesing,  Chas.  E.  Nixon. 

LIBRARY  COMMITTEE. —  M.  E.  Stone,  W.  K.  Sullivan,  J.  B. 
Bradwell,  Charles  M.  Pepper,  Leander  Stone. 

VISITING  COMMITTEE. —  Charles  S.  Diehl,  Nate  A.  Reed,  Jr., 
W.  T.  C.  Hyde. 

The  Secretary,  under  date  of  January  25,  1885,  sub- 
mitted a  report  showing  that  there  was  a  membership  of 
152  at  the  close  of  the  year,  twenty- four  members  having 
retired  and  been  dropped  from  the  rolls  for  various  causes. 
Of  the  members  at  that  date,  138  were  resident  and  active; 
ii  non-resident,  i  life  member  and  2  honorary  members. 
Twenty-six  new  members  were  admitted  during  the  year, 
and  there  were  three  deaths  of  members. 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  43 

Treasurer  Scott's  report,  upon  retiring  from  office 
January  25,  1885,  made  the  following  showing: 

Receipts  for  the  year,  $3,916.50;  expenditures, 
$3.581.53;  surplus  balance,  $334.97;  bonds,  $1,200; 
total  balance,  $1,534.97. 

February  22  it  was  resolved  to  issue  cards  of  admission 
to  the  Club  rooms,  good  for  two  weeks,  to  resident  news- 
paper men  not  members  of  the  Club. 

In  April  of  this  year  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade 
moved  to  its  new  home,  and  in  arranging  for  the  opening 
ceremonies  the  President  of  the  Press  Club  was  chosen  to 
respond  for  the  press  at  the  grand  banquet  held  at  the 
Grand  Pacific  Hotel. 

May  24,  Charles  H.  Dennis,  Financial  Secretary,  and 
W.  T.  Hall,  Recording  Secretary,  impelled  by  stress  of 
other  duties,  resigned  the  positions  to  which  they  had 
been  elected.  Mr.  F.  E.  Johnson  was  elected  acting 
Financial  Secretary.  July  6,  at  a  special  election,  Mr. 
Johnson  was  duly  elected  Financial  Secretary  and  R.  J. 
Murphy  Recording  Secretary. 

In  June,  the  Mexican  journalists  visited  the  United 
States,  and  while  in  Chicago  they  were  the  guests  of  the 
Press  Club.  The  Board  of  Trade  entered  into  active 
cooperation  with  the  Club  and  raised  a  comfortable  sum 
to  defray  the  expenses  of  the  entertainment  of  the  dis- 
tinguished visitors.  A  banquet  was  given  them  at  the 
Palmer  House,  and  their  three  days'  stay  in  Chicago  was 
made  exceedingly  pleasant.  When  they  returned  to 


44  HISTORY   OF   THE 

Mexico,  a  volume  was  published  in  Spanish,  giving  the 
history  of  the  tour,  and  in  this  the  Press  Club  of  Chicago 
is  given  the  first  place. 

August  23,  a  vote  of  thanks  was  tendered  C.  D. 
Mosher  for  framed  photographs  of  the  distinguished 
Mexican  editors  who  were  guests  of  the  Club. 

RESOLUTIONS  ON  THE  DEATH  OF  EMERY  A.  STORRS. 

Messrs.  Leo  Canman,  T.  Z.  Cowles  and  Henry 
Wendell  Thomson  were  appointed  a  committee  to  draft 
suitable  resolutions  relative  to  the  death  of  the  Hon. 
Emery  A.  Storrs.  The  committee  reported  the  following, 
which  were  unanimously  adopted  and  ordered  spread  upon 
the  records,  and  the  Secretary  was  instructed  to  transmit 
a  suitably  prepared  copy  to  Mrs.  Storrs  : 

Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  Mr.  Emery  A.  Storrs  the  press 
of  Chicago  will  miss  a  stanch  and  devoted  friend,  whose  conception  of 
the  true  relations  of  the  press  and  of  public  men  toward  each  other 
might  well  serve  as  a  model  and  a  standard.  He  had  a  hearty  con- 
tempt for  the  fallacy  that  to  say  nothing  is  to  establish  a  reputation  for 
superior  wisdom ;  and  in  recognition  of  the  binding  force  of  the 
unwritten  law  that  whatever  the  public  wants  the  public  is  entitled  to 
have,  he  was  at  all  times  ready  and  willing  to  impart  information  that 
was  a  proper  subject  for  publication.  He  was  the  friend  of  the  inter- 
viewer, and  did  much  toward  popularizing  and  rendering  valuable  that 
feature  of  journalism.  In  Mr.  Storrs  the  Press  Club  of  Chicago  recog- 
nized a  generous  friend  and  a  helper,  whose  voice  and  splendid  abili- 
ties were  at  all  times  at  the  Club's  service.  Although  ineligible  to 
membership,  he  stood  in  the  relation  of  one  of  us,  in  the  sense  of  his 
hearty  sympathy  with  all  the  ends  and  aims  of  our  organization. 

Resolved,  That  these  resolutions  be  spread  upon  the  records  of  this 
Club,  and  that  a  copy  of  the  same  be  transmitted  by  the  Secretary  to 
the  family  cf  the  deceased. 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  45 

November  i,  1885,  tne  Club  adopted  an  amendment 
to  the  Constitution  changing  the  date  of  meeting  of  the 
Club  from  the  fourth  to  the  second  Sunday  of  each  month. 

THE  SIXTH  ENTERTAINMENT. 

When  the  time  approached  for  the  sixth  annual  enter- 
tainment, the  committee,  consisting  of  J.  W.  Scott,  chair- 
man, J.  M.  Dandy,  F.  E.  Johnson,  Washington  Hesing, 
and  Charles  E.  Nixon,  determined  to  outdo  all  previous 
attempts,  and  the  result  proved  their  efforts  were  successful. 
They  prepared  an  excellent  programme,  and  the  hall  was 
crowded  with  the  best  people  in  the  city.  Everything 
moved  with  clock-like  precision,  and  the  committee 
merited  the  thanks  of  the  Club,  which  were  voted  at  the 
subsequent  meeting.  The  programme  was  as  follows: 


46  HISTORY   OF   THE 

SIXTH   ANNUAL   ENTERTAINMENT 

OF  THE 

PRESS    CLUB    OF    CHICAGO, 

CENTRAL   MUSIC   HALL, 
THURSDAY   EVENING,  NOVEMBER  5,  1885. 


PROGRAMME. 

ORGAN —"  Offertoire  de  Ste.  Cecile,"       -        -        -  ...        Batiste' 

HARRISON  M.  WILD. 


LECTURE — "  Advice  to  Young  Men,"       ..-..--          

ROBERT  J.  BURDETTE. 

BOLERO,       -  Arditi. 

MISS  JENNIE  DUTTON. 

RECITATION — "  Lasca,"      ----. Despraize. 

SAMUEL  KAYZER. 


MONOLOGUE — "  Artistic  Africa,"         -        -        -        -        -        -        -        -        

WILLIS  P.  SWEATNAM, 
Courtesy  of  Haverly's  Home  Minstrels. 

ARIA  —From  "  Le  Postilion  de  Lonjumeau,"  Adam. 

FERDINAND  WACHTEL. 
Courtesy  of  Gustav  Amberg. 

RECITATION — "  Antony  and  Cleopatra,"          -    •    -        -        -        -        -          Lytle. 

W.  S.  HARKINS. 
Courtesy  of  Louis  Aldrich. 


PRESS    CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  47 


SWEDISH  LOVE  SONG,    --- Kjernelf. 

JOHN  E.  McWADE. 

Courtesy  of  J.  H.  HAVERLY. 

HUMOROUS  MONOLOGUE —       ....--.-.          

JAMES  WHITCOMB  RILEY. 


MUSICALE,  ----- .  - 

THE  WONDERFUL  MAGNANI  TROUPE. 
Courtesy  of  Kiralfy  Bros. 

JAPANESE  POT-POURRI,       ----------        

THE   MADRIGAL  BOYS. 
.     Courtesy  of  J.  H.  Haverly. 

"  TIT  WILLOW  "  SONG,  -        ...  -  The  Mikado. 

LOUIS  DE  LANGE. 
Courtesy  of  C.  H.  Goodwin. 


ARIA  —  Prayer  from  "  Der  Freischeutz," 

MME.  FRANCESKA  RABERG. 
Courtesy  of  Gustav  Amberg. 

"  OHE  MAMMA,"  -        Tosti. 

MISS   MARIE  JANSEN. 
Courtesy  of  John  A.  McCaull. 

TOPICAL  TRIO — "  Read  the  Answer  in  the  Stars,"      ...        -        Cottrelly. 
MATHILDE  COTTRELLY,  GEORGE  C.  BONIFACE,  JR.,  AND 

DE  WOLF  HOPPER. 
Courtesy  of  John  A.  McCaull. 

Full  Orchestra  Accompaniment,  under  direction  of  HERR  DIETRICH. 

Courtesy  of  J.  M.  Hill. 
FRANK   T.  BAIRD,        -        -        -        Accompanist. 

The  CHICAGO  PRESS  CLUB  desires  to   make  acknowledgment  for  the  continued 

courtesies  of  Mrs.  Geo.  B.  Carpenter,  lessee,  and  Mr.  Milward  Adams, 

manager  of  Central  Music  Hall ;  also  to  all  the  artists 

participating  in  the  programme. 

The  Weber  Piano  is  used  in  this  entertainment. 


48  HISTORY    OF    THE 

Mr.  Boynton  offered  the  following  resolutions,  which, 
after  extended  discussion  of  the  subject  matter,  were  unani- 
mously adopted  : 

WHEREAS,  The  Press  Club  of  Chicago  has  been  called  upon 
during  its  existence  of  six  years  to  mourn  the  loss  of  a  number  of  its 
members  by  death,  and  has  in  some  instances  been  the  means  of  pro- 
curing suitable  interment  of  a  deceased  member ;  therefore,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  this  Club  appoint  a  committee  of  five  to  examine 
and  report  to  the  Board  of  Directors  upon  the  question  of  procuring  a 
deed  of  a  suitable  lot  in  a  local  cemetery  to  be  known  as  "  The  Chicago 
Press  Club  Lot,"  in  which  all  deceased  members  who  have  no  family 
burial  place,  or  whose  friends  may  so  desire,  may  be  interred ;  and, 
further,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  this  committee  take  proper  steps  to  procure  infor- 
mation regarding  the  erection  of  an  appropriate  shaft  or  monument  to 
mark  the  spot  where  the  deceased  members  may  rest. 

Messrs.  H.  F.  Boynton,  T.  Z.  Cowles,  Leo  Canman, 
W.  M.  Knox  and  J.  B.  Bradwell  were  appointed  as  the 
committee  to  carry  out  the  intent  of  the  resolutions. 

At  an  adjourned  meeting,  held  January  3,  1886,  an 
event  occurred  worthy  of  record  as  a  precedent  in  the 
annals  of  the  Club.  Upon  the  taking  of  a  ballot  and  the 
election  of  a  new  member,  six  members  arose  and  ques- 
tioned the  accuracy  of  the  ballot  on  account  of  a  defect 
in  the  ballot-box.  Discussion  was  shut  off,  and  a  motion 
to  reconsider  the  announcement  by  which  the  member 
declared  elected  was  laid  upon  the  table  by  a  vote  of  1 1 
to  7.  This  summary  action  gave  rise  to  agitation  which 
resulted  at  a  subsequent  meeting  in  a  reconsideration  of 
the  vote  by  which  the  matter  was  tabled  ;  the  setting 
aside  of  the  ballot  by  which  the  member  was  declared 


PRESS   CLUB    OF   CHICAGO.  49 

elected,  and  the  adoption  of  an  amendment  (to  the  clause 
of  the  Constitution  concerning  the  balloting  for  members) 
by  a  unanimous  vote  of  twenty-six.  The  member  whose 
election  had  been  questioned  was  then  again  formally 
voted  upon  and  admitted. 

SEVENTH  ANNUAL  ELECTION. 

The  annual  meeting  for  the  election  of  new  officers 
was  held  January  7,  1886.  Mr.  McGovern  withdrew  a 
ticket  headed  by  James  W.  Scott,  of  The  Herald,  by 
authority  of  the  latter.  Mr.  M.  E.  Stone  announced  his 
inability  to  serve  as  Vice-President  if  elected  on  another 
ticket,  and  Mr.  Knox  did  not  wish  his  name  used  for 
Secretary.  The  polls  were  open  from  4  to  9  o'clock  P.M., 
and  1 06  ballots  were  cast,  the  largest  number  since  the 
organization  of  the  Club.  The  result  was  as  follows : 

PRESIDENT  : 
JOHN  F.  BALLANTYNE,   The  Daily  News. 

FIRST  VICE  PRESIDENT: 
T.   Z.  COWLES,    The  Mirror  of  American  Sports. 

SECOND  VICE-PRESIDENT:  THIRD  VICE-PRESIDENT: 

W.  A.  TAYLOR,   The  Herald.        WASHINGTON  HESING, 

Staats  Zeitung. 

FINANCIAL  SECRETARY  : 
JOHN  J.  FULLER,   Tht  National  Car  Builder. 

RECORDING  SECRETARY  :  TREASURER  : 

W.  H.  HARPER,  The  Inter  Ocean.     LEO  CANMAN,  The  Tribune. 


50  HISTORY    OF    THE 

DIRECTORS : 

JOHN  M.  DANDY,  Saturday  Evening  Herald. 
R.  W.  RANSOM,  The  Tribune.         W.  M.  KNOX,  The  News. 
C.  A.  SNOWDEN,  The  Mail.  F.  B.  WILKIE,  The  Times. 

HOUSE  COMMITTEE  : 

WALTER  NEEF,  Western  Associated  Press. 
FRED  B.  STEVENSON,  The  Sun.     C.  F.  BLAKELY,  Blakely  Printing  Co. 

After  the  tellers  had  announced  the  result,  on  motion 
of  Mr.  Dandy,  the  election  of  the  successful  ticket  was 
declared  unanimous. 

The  new  officers,  with  the  exception  of  President 
Ballantyne,  who  was  absent  in  New  Orleans  at  the  time 
of  his  election,  were  installed  at  a  special  meeting,  Janu- 
ary 17.  The  outgoing  Treasurer  made  a  supplemental 
report,  and  the  Financial  Secretary  gave  an  account  of  his 
able  and  excellent  stewardship.  The  Treasurer's  report 
showed  receipts  of  $5,174.22  for  the  year;  expenditures, 
$4,744.13;  balance  on  hand,  $430.09;  permanent  fund, 
$2,000  ;  total  balance,  $2,430.09. 

Mr.  Frank  E.  Johnson  was  added  to  the  Art  Com- 
mittee—  Messrs.  Magee,  McGovern  and  Cowles  —  to  pro- 
cure a  portrait  of  the  retiring  President. 

February  14,  1886,  President  Ballantyne  was  duly 
installed  in  office.  The  Executive  Committee  reported 
having  organized,  with  John  M.  Dandy  as  Chairman  and 
W.  M.  Knox  as  Secretary.  The  committee  recommended 
the  resumption  of  Saturday  evening  receptions,  which  had 
been  allowed  to  lapse  for  a  time.  It  was  reported  that  a 


PRESS    CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  51 

recent  lecture  by  Col.  Charles  Chaille  Long,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Club,  was  a  pronounced  success. 

March  14,  President  Ballantyne  appointed  the  follow- 
ing standing  committees: 

LIBRARY  COMMITTEE. — H.  F.  Boynton,  J.  F.  Henderson,  R.  J. 
Murphy. 

ENTERTAINMENT  COMMITTEE. — Franc  B.  Wilkie,  H.  M.  Hunt, 
E.  J.  McPhelim,  Charles  E.  Nixon,  Harry  W.  Snyder. 

RECEPTION  COMMITTEE. — John  McGovern,  H.  F.  Boynton,  J.  M. 
Dandy,  H.  W.  Thomson,  J.  W.  Scott. 

VISITING  COMMITTEE.  —  F.  O.  Bennett,  J.  C.  Bundy,  G.  A. 
Babbitt. 

April  n,  the  Club  decided,  by  resolution,  that  it  was 
the  intent  and  meaning  of  the  Constitution,  in  defining 
eligibility,  that  in  the  class  of  "regular  contributors"  to 
the  press  should  be  included  all  artists  who  illustrate 
thoughts  in  pictorial  form  for  the  publications  of  Chicago. 

The  Library  Committee  submitted  reports  acknowl- 
edging the  receipt  of  twenty-two  volumes  from  A.  C. 
McClurg,  eleven  from  Belford,  Clarke  &  Co.,  and  a  large 
number  of  valuable  books  from  Harper  &  Brothers,  and 
recommending  that  suitable  notices  be  published.  The 
committee  also  set  forth  that  the  growth  of  the  library  and 
the  acquisition  of  valuable  books  had  progressed  so  favor- 
ably that  it  would  be  wise  to  have  cases  with  glass  doors 
and  locks  constructed,  and  recommended  their  purchase. 

The  Club  extended  a  vote  of  thanks  to  the  publishers, 
and  also  to  the  Chicago  Safe  and  Lock  Co.,  for  a  beautiful 


52  HISTORY    OF    THE 

and  valuable  safe;  to  W.  W.  Kimball  for  a  Hallett  & 
Davis  piano ;  to  The  Daily  News,  The  Legal  News,  The 
Chicago  Herald  and  The  Saturday  Evening  Herald  for 
advertising  favors,  and  to  John  J.  Fuller,  the  Financial 
Secretary,  for  his  unceasing  efforts  in  the  interests  of  the 
Club,  and  all  of  these  formal  acknowledgments  were 
spread  upon  the  records. 

May  9,  1886,  Vice-President  Cowles  presided,  and 
Treasurer  Canman  reported  receipts  for  the  year,  to  date, 
$1,841.81.  Mr.  Boynton,  of  the  Library  Committee, 
reported  the  receipt  of  twenty-four  volumes  from  Har- 
per &  Brothers.  The  Club  was  free  from  debt,  and  had 
$360  collectable  assets. 

A  special  meeting  of  the  Club  was  held  on  Septem- 
ber 3,  for  the  election  of  two  directors  and  a  treasurer, 
to  fill  vacancies  caused  by  resignation.  The  result  of 
the  election  was  as  follows :  Treasurer,  James  W.  Scott ; 
Directors,  Henry  F.  Boynton,  The  Inter  Ocean,  Hugh 
Hume,  The  Inter  Ocean. 

At  the  meeting  of  September  12,  Mr.  Boynton  ten- 
dered his  resignation  as  a  director,  because  he  did  not 
approve  of  two  directors  being  elected  from  the  same 
paper. 


PRESS   CLUB    OF   CHICAGO.  53 

SEVENTH  ANNUAL  ENTERTAINMENT 

OF  THB 

PRESS     CLUB     OF    CHICAGO 


AT 


CENTRAL  MUSIC  HALL, 
MONDAY  EVENING,  NOVEMBER  i,  1886. 


(  a,  Mennetto,  in  G, 

PIANO  SOLCK  i,  Nocturne  (Op.  37,  No.  2), 
(c,  Neapolitaine, 


PROGRAMME. 

1 .  ORGAN  SOLO — Variations  in  A,         ....  -  Hesse. 

LOUIS  FALK. 

2.  REMARKS — The  Use  and  Abuse  of  Pugilism,       ....        Original. 

BILL  NYE. 

Moszkmusky. 
Chopin. 
Lizst. 
MLLE.  CONSTANCE  MOZARRA. 

4.  CHILD  SKETCH — "Orphan,!  Annie,"     --....         Original. 

JAMES  WH1TCOMB  RILEY. 

5.  SONG,  -----------.    Schubert. 

HERR  OTTO  RATHJENS. 
Courtesy  of  Amberg  Thalia  Opera  Company. 

(  i. — Fantasia  on  Russian  Airs,     -  Wieniawski '. 

6.  VIOLIN  SOLO<       (a,  Nocturne,      -----       Chopin-Sarasate . 

( 2-  \  t,  Dervish  Dance,         -  Stoeving. 

HERR  PAUL  STOEVING. 
Piano  Accompaniment  by  MLLE.  MOZARRA. 

7.  READING— The  Little  Wharf  Rat, Derrick  Dodd. 

MISS  EMMA  BOBBITT. 

8.  MONOLOGUE — Musical  Memories,          ------        Original. 

MR.  FRANK  LINCOLN. 

9.  AIR — Thema  und  Variazionen,          -----          Heinrich  Proch. 

MISS  LILY  RUNALS. 

10.  EPISODE — Reprimanding  a  Boy,    -------         Original. 

BILL  NYE. 

1 1 .  SONG — The  Desert,    ----------       Pinsuti. 

IMPERIAL  QUARTETTE. 

12.  HOOSIEK  DIALECT — "  Nothin'  to  Say,"       -----        Original. 

JAMES  WHITCOMB  RILEY. 

13.  INSTRUMENTAL — El  Guria  (Waltz),          -----       Z).  Gradado. 

FLORENTINE  MANDOLIN  ORCHESTRA. 

14.  SONG — A  Dream,  ----------      Robin. 

MISS  CARRIE  GODFREY. 
Courtesy  of  Thompson  Opera  Company. 


54  HISTORV    OF   THE 

The  annual  entertainment  proved  a  success  financially, 
the  net  profit  being  $1,054.89.  The  year  1886  closed 
without  anything  of  particular  note  in  the  affairs  of  the 
Club. 

THE  EIGHTH  ANNUAL  ELECTION. 

The  annual  election  for  1887  was  held  on  Thursday, 
January  6,  from  4  to  9  o'clock,  and  there  being  only  one 
ticket  in  the  field  the  result  was  as  follows  : 

PRESIDENT  : 
JAMES  W.  SCOTT,    The  Herald. 

FIRST  VICE-PRESIDENT: 
WM.  PENN  NIXON,   The  Inter  Ocean. 

SECOND  VICE-PRESIDENT  : 
W.  K.  SULLIVAN,    The  Evening  Journal. 

THIRD  VICE-PRESIDENT: 
JOHN  M.  DANDY,  Saturday  Evening  Herald. 

FINANCIAL  SECRETARY  : 
HENRY  M.  HUNT,  Hunfs  News  Bureau. 

RECORDING  SECRETARY : 
DAVID  E.  SASSEEN,   The  Inter  Ocean. 

TREASURER : 
GEORGE  SCHNEIDER. 

DIRECTORS : 
R.  W.  RANSOM,  The  Tribune.  T.  Z.  COWLES,  The  Times. 

CHARLES  M.  FAYE,  The  Daily  News. 
E.  H.  TALBOT,  The  Railway  Age.     J.  J.  WEST,  The  Evening  Mail. 

HOUSE  COMMITTEE  : 

PAUL  C.  HULL,  The  Daily  News.     JOHN  PRATT,  The  Tribune. 
A.  C.  THOMAS,  Associated  Press. 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  55 

President  Scott  appointed  the  following  committees  for 
1887: 

ENTERTAINMENT. — C.  A.  Snowden,  H.  B.  Smith,  Walton  Perkins, 
J.  J.  Fuller,  Sam.  V.  Steele. 

LIBRARY. — E.  A.  Cdlkins,  H.  F.  Boynton,  E.  P.  Vining. 

RECEPTION.— Jno.  F.  Ballantyne,  Col.  J.  C.  Bundy,  T.  Z.  Cowles, 
J.  B.  Jeffery,  John  E.  Wilkie. 

VISITING. — John  McGovern,  W.  A.  Taylor,  J.  Harry  Ballard. 

At  the  regular  meeting  held  January  9,  1887,  the  newly 
elected  officers  were  duly  installed.  The  reports  of  the 
secretary  and  treasurer  showed  receipts  $5,806.19,  and 
expenditures  $5,205  06,  leaving  a  balance  of  $601.13  in 
the  Club  treasury.  Mr.  Boynton,  of  the  Library  Com- 
mittee, reported  the  receipt  of  one  hundred  and  forty 
volumes  during  the  year,  and,  on  motion  of  Mr.  McGovern, 
was  tendered  a  vote  of  thanks  by  the  Club  for  his  efforts 
in  behalf  of  the  library.  Mr.  Hunt,  of  the  Entertainment 
Committee,  reported  that  the  receipts  were  $1,508.50,  and 
the  expenses  $477.36;  net  profit  $1,031.14.  Mr.  J.  J. 
West  was  credited  with  having  sold  the  largest  number  of 
tickets,  250,  and  was  given  a  vote  of  thanks.  There  were 
forty-seven  new  members  elected  during  the  year,  but  forty 
of  the  old  members  had  either  resigned  or  been  dropped 
from  the  rolls.  Messrs.  T.  Z.  Cowles  and  R.  W.  Ransom 
tendered  their  resignations  as  directors,  and  they  were 
accepted. 

At  the  meeting  held  Jan.  23,  Mr.  George  Schneider,  a 
life  member  of  the  Club,  presented  a  five-dollar  greenback, 


56  HISTORY   OF   THE 

Series  A,  No.  i,  to  the  Club  as  a  curiosity.  It  has  been 
framed,  and  now  hangs  on  the  wall  of  the  library.  In 
February  of  this  year,  Mr.  Paul  C.  Russell,  a  member  of 
the  Club,  was  killed  by  being  thrown  under  the  cars  of 
the  Illinois  Central  Railroad.  At  the  meeting  February 
21,  Messrs.  H.  W.  Snyder,  John  E.  Wilkie  and  John  J. 
Fuller  were  named  as  a  committee  on  resolutions  of 
respect  to  the  memory  of  Mr.  Russell.  Suitable  floral 
tributes  were  sent  to  the  residence,  and  H.  M.  Hunt,  Hill 
C.  Smith  and  D.  E.  Sasseen  were  appointed  a  committee 
to  procure  the  tribute.  The  pall-bearers  named  were 
Messrs.  J.  J.  Fuller,  Harry  Manning,  W.  T.  C.  Hyde, 
F.  B.  Wilkie,  W.  M.  Knox  and  Fred  B.  Stevenson. 
Notice  was  received  by  the  Club  from  E.  S.  Clark,  secre- 
tary of  the  Press  Club  of  Albuquerque,  New  Mexico,  that 
C.  M.  Ostrander,  a  member  of  the  Press  Club  of  Chicago, 
was  sick  in  that  city  and  in  distress.  On  motion  of  Mr. 
Cowles,  the  Club  voted  to  send  Mr.  Ostrander  a  draft  for 
$50,  which  was  done.  At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Club 
held  April  9,  1887,  notice  was  received  from  Phcenix, 
Arizona,  that  C.  M.  Ostrander  had  died  a  few  days  before. 
Suitable  resolutions  were  passed  by  the  Club  to  the 
memory  of  Mr.  Ostrander.  The  death  of  Mr.  William 
Colebrook,  an  old  member  of  the  Club,  was  announced, 
and  resolutions  of  respect  were  passed.  Messrs.  F.  B. 
Wilkie,  T.  Z.  Cowles,  J.  J.  Fuller,  H.  M.  Hunt,  H.  J. 
Bohn  and  J.  F.  Ballantyne  were  appointed  a  committee  to 
represent  the  Club  at  Mr.  Colebrook' s  funeral. 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  57 

At  the  regular  meeting  held  May  8,  1887,  a  report  was 
made  by  the  Monument  Committee  to  the  effect  that  the 
Chicago  Architectural  Sketch  Club  had  submitted  several 
designs  for  a  Press  Club  monument.  At  this  meeting, 
John  R.  Walsh,  Esq.,  was  elected  a  life  member  of  the 
Club.  Notice  of  the  death  of  Mr.  James  F.  Small,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Club,  was  given,  and  Mr.  McGovern  presented 
resolutions  of  respect,  which  were  unanimously  adopted. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Club  held  June  12,  1887,  the 
subject  of  a  series  of  lectures  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Club  was  discussed.  The  resignation  of  C.  M.  Faye  from 
the  Board  of  Directors  was  received  and  accepted. 

At  the  meeting  held  September  n,  Mr.  J.  K.  Allen,  of 
The  Sanitary  News,  was  unanimously  elected  a  director  to 
fill  vacancy. 

At  the  meeting  held  November  13,  1887,  it  was  voted 
to  give  the  annual  entertainment  on  the  evening  of  Mon- 
day, December  5,  and  President  Scott  reported  that  he 
had  procured  the  consent  of  Messrs.  Bill  Nye  and  James 
Whitcomb  Riley  to  appear  for  the  Press  Club's  entertain- 
ment. It  was  found  impossible  to  make  the  date  suitable 
for  these  gentlemen,  and  their  offer  was  deferred  to  another 
occasion.  The  programme  for  the  entertainment  was  as 
follows : 


58  HISTORY   OF   THE 

EIGHTH   ANNUAL   ENTERTAINMENT 

OF    THE 

PRESS    CLUB    OF    CHICAGO, 

CENTRAL   MUSIC   HALL, 
MONDAY  EVENING,  DECEMBER  5,  1887. 


PROGRAMME. 

1.  ORGAN  FANTASIK — "  Old  Folks  at  Home,"    -----        Flagler. 

MR.   LOUIS   FALK. 

2.  "A  WARRIOR  BOLD," J.  A.  West. 

LOTUS   QUARTETTE. 

3.  "  TOMPKINS'  SILVER  WEDDING,"      ........        

MR.  H.  C.  BARNABEE. 

.    f(a)  BOURREE, Bach- Hy llested. 

\(b)  POLONAISE, -...          Chopin. 

MR.  AUGUST  HYLLESTED. 

5.  CHE  FARO  SENZA  EURIDICE,        --------       Cluck. 

JESSIE   BARTLETT  DAVIS. 

6.  FAUST  FANTASIB,      ---------         Wieniaivski. 

MR.  CARL   HILD. 
Accompanied  by  Mrs.  Hild. 

7.  IMITATIONS, Original. 

MARSHALL   P.  WILDER. 

INTERMISSION. 

8.  VITTORIO  Mio  CORE, Carrissimnii. 

MR.  L.  GASTON  GOTTSCHALK. 

9.  BARDIC  FANTASIA  ON  IRISH  AIRS,        -        ...  F.  Chatterton. 

Introducing  enharmonic  effects  possible  only  to  the  harp. 
MME.  JOSEPHINE  CHATTERTON. 

10.     AVE  MARIA,       ----- Ch.  Gounod. 

MRS.  ANNA   DONEY. 

Violin  and  Piano  Accompaniment,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hild. 
n.    SONG,         -----------  Selected. 

MR.  W.  H.  MAcDONALD. 

12.  OH  !  LUCE  DI  QUEST  ANIMA.        ------  Donizetti. 

MISS  JULIET  CORDEN. 

13.  MONOLOGUE,          ----------          Original. 

MR.  MARSHALL   P.  WILDER. 

14.  By  courtesy  of  the  Messrs.  John,  James  and  George  Gorman,  proprietors,  and 

Fred  E.  Wright,  manager,  GORMAN'S  SPECTACULAR  MINSTRELS  in  the  new 
erratic  Extravaganza,  entitled 

"THE  GOLDEN   BALL." 


PRESS    CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  59 

The  annual  entertainment  was  a  success,  and  the  net 
profit,  as  reported  by  the  Treasurer  at  the  meeting  Decem- 
ber 7,  was  $1,200. 

THE  NINTH  ANNUAL  ELECTION. 

The  annual  election  was  held  in  January,  1888,  and 
the  following  ticket  was  unanimously  elected,  there  being 
no  opposition  ;  it  was  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  the 
Club  that  a  President  had  been  reflected  : 

PRESIDENT  : 
JAMES  W.  SCOTT,   The  Herald. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS  : 

FRANK  S.  BLAIN,   The  Inter  Ocean. 

CLINTON  B.  SNOWDEN,   The  Times. 

JOHN  K.  ALLEN,   The  American  Advertiser. 

TREASURER  : 
GEORGE  SCHNEIDER,  Banker. 

FINANCIAL  SECRETARY  : 
JOHN  B.  WALDO,  Commercial  Bulletin. 

SECRETARY  : 
HOMER  J.  CARR,    The   Tribune. 

DIRECTORS : 
HENRY  F.  BOYNTON,  OPIE  P.  READ, 

The  Inter  Ocean.  The  Arkansaw  Traveler. 

EDWARD  L.  STEWART,  ERVIN  B.  HAWKINS, 

Real  Estate.  The  Tribune. 

FRED  A.  MALLERY,  The  News. 

President  Scott  announced  the  appointment  of  the  fol- 
lowing standing  committees  : 

ENTERTAINMENT  COMMITTEE. — Henry  M.  Hunt,  Chairman ;  John 
M.  Dandy,  Charles  E.  Nixon,  Wm.  P.  Meredith,  Paul  Hull. 


60  HISTORY    OF   THE 

RECEPTION  COMMITTEE — John  McGovern,  Chairman;  Col.  J.  C. 
Bundy,  Seymour  Kisch,  M.  B.  Gibbs,  T.  Z.  Cowles. 

LIBRARY  COMMITTEE. — W.  H.  Freeman,  Chairman ;  John  Willy, 
Wm.  H.  Strong. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Club  held  January  8,  Messrs. 
W.  M.  Knox,  John  McGovern  and  W.  H.  Freeman  were 
appointed  a  committee  to  revise  the  constitution.  At  the 
meeting  held  February  9,  the  committee  on  constitution 
reported,  and  a  lengthy  discussion  of  the  report  followed, 
resulting  in  the  matter  being  deferred  to  the  next  monthly 
meeting. 

AN  EXTRA  ENTERTAINMENT. 

It  was  deemed  advisable  that  the  Club  give  an  extra 
entertainment,  especially  as  Messrs.  Nye  and  Riley  had  so 
cordially  tendered  their  services.  The  directors  carried 
out  the  wishes  of  the  Club,  and  on  Wednesday  evening, 
February  15,  1888,  at  Central  Music  Hall,  a  very  mem- 
orable entertainment  of  the  Club  was  given,  with  the. 

following 

PROGRAMME. 

1.  ORGAN— March  Fantastic  (Bargiel), LOUIS  FALK. 

2.  DIALECT  STUDY,       -     '  -        JAMES  WHITCOMB  RILEY. 

3.  MONOLOGUE,  -        -        -     BILL  NYE. 

4.  "  HARK  !  THE  TRUMPET  "  (Dudley  Buck),    -        -    LOTUS  QUARTETTE. 

5.  CHARACTER  POEM,       -        -  -        -   JAMES  WHITCOMB  RILEY. 

6.  "As  IT  WERE,"        -  -        -         BILL  NYE. 

7.  "OLD  KENTUCKY  HOME,"  LOTUS  QUARTETTE. 

8.  IMPERSONATIONS,  JAMES  WHITCOMB  RILEY. 

9.  IN  CONCLUSION,    -  -     BILL  NYE. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Club  held  March  u,  1888,  the 
financial  secretary  reported  the  receipts  for  February, 


PRESS   CLUB   OF    CHICAGO.  61 

including  the  Nye  and  Riley  entertainment,  were  $1,702, 
and  the  expenditures  $670.80,  leaving  a  balance  of 
$1,031.22  in  bank,  with  all  bills  paid.  The  Club  now 
entered  upon  a  season  of  prosperity  that  was  unparalleled 
in  its  history.  President  Scott  reported  that  the  directors 
had  decided  to  improve  the  Club  rooms.  The  committee 
on  constitution  reported  the  revised  document,  and  it  was 
adopted  after  some  revision  by  the  Club.  On  motion  of 
Mr.  Boynton,  the  Club  voted  to  publish  the  constitution 
and  the  history  of  the  Club,  and  President  Scott  appointed 
Mr.  Henry  F.  Boynton  a  committee  on  publication.  The 
Club  rooms  were  filled  with  members,  and  President  Scott 
announced  that  the  next  meeting  of  the  Club  would  be 
held  at  the  Sherman  House,  as  the  rooms  were  to  be  dis- 
mantled at  once.  Mr.  Paul  Blouett,  "  Max  O'Rell,"  was 
the  guest  of  the  Club  on  this  closing  Sunday  in  the  old 
rooms,  and  a  social  session  was  enjoyed  as  a  farewell  to  the 
old  home. 

April  8,  1888,  the  Club  met  at  the  Sherman  House. 
President  Scott  announced  that  Mr.  David  Henderson,  of 
the  Chicago  Opera  House,  had  tendered  the  use  of  his 
theater  for  Sunday  evening  during  April  for  the  benefit  of 
the  Club.  The  offer  was  accepted  for  Sunday  evening, 
April  22,  but  subsequently  the  date  was  changed,  as  it  was 
deemed  improper  for  the  Club  to  give  an  entertainment  on 
Sunday  evening.  The  Club  voted  to  give  the  first  recep- 
tion in  the  new  rooms  to  the  newspaper  fraternity,  another 


62  HISTORY    OF   THE 

formal  reception  to  be  given  the  same  week  as  a  house- 
warming. 

The  death  of  Leander  Stone,  Esq.,  was  reported  to  the 
Club,  and  Mr.  F.  B.  Wilkie  was  appointed  a  committee  to 
draft  suitable  resolutions. 

A  SPECIAL  MATINEE. 

The  special  entertainment  was  given  at  the  Chicago 
Opera  House,  and  was  a  grand  success.  The  programme 
was  a  most  excellent  one,  and  was  composed  as  follows : 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  63 

CHICAGO  OPERA  HOUSE. 


DRAMATIC    MATINEE 

UNDER  THE   AUSPICES  OF  THE 

PRESS     CLUB    OF    CHICAGO, 

THURSDAY,  APRIL  26,  1888. 


PROGRAMME. 

1.  OVERTURE — Rienzi  (the  Last  of  the  Tribunes),        -        ...        Wagner. 
CHICAGO  OPERA  HOUSE  ORCHESTRA  (conducted  by  MR.  RICHARD  MADDBRN). 

2.  MR.  AND  MRS.  GEORGE  S.  KNIGHT, 

(By  kind  permission  of  Manager  HARRY  HAM  LIN)  in  the  second  act  of  their 
great  play, 

"BARON     RUDOLPH," 

WITH   THE   FOLLOWING   CAST  : 

Rudolph  Wiegand,  Baron  von  Hollenstein,  ...  Mr.  Geo.  S.  Knight. 
Whitworth  Lawrence,  a  Man  of  Iron  and  Gold,  -  ...  Mr.  John  Burk. 
Gen.  Benj.  Metcalf,  a  Man  of  Law  and  Love,  -  -  -  Mr.  Bernard  Dillyn. 
Judge  Merrybone,  a  Man  of  Justice  and  Fun,  -  -  Mr.  Will  C.  Sampson. 
Geoffrey  Brown,  a  Man  of  Tender  Years,  -  .  -  -  Mr.  B.  F.  Grinnell. 

Allen,       -        -        -        -  1    T>    «•     •       i  »»        f-        -        Mr.  Samuel  Ryan. 

[  Professional  Men,]  DO/-     ' 

Owen,          -        -        -        -     J  l          .        .  Mr.  B.  B.  Cromby. 

The  County  Sheriff,  the  Right  Man  in  the  Right  Place,         Mr.  Bartley  McCullum. 
John  Henry  Thomas,  a  Footman,        -  Mr.  Charles  L.  Webster. 

Bill  Overdeck,  a  Man  who  has  a  Memory,      -  Mr.  John  B.^Dillon. 

John  Wilson,  a  Workman,     -------  Mr.  Richard  Reab. 

Herr  Louis  Van  Zelner,  -   )  Foreign  Gentlemen,  Agents  f         Mr.  John  H.  Jackson. 
Herr  Otto  Breau,        -         J  of  the  Hollenstein  Estates,!   -       Mr.  William  Jeffries. 
Rhoda,  who  Loves  and  Suffers,        ------       Miss  Florida  Abell. 

Ernestine,  a  Baby,  a  Girl,  and  a  Woman,     -        -        -        -       Miss  Rosita  Worrell. 

Mrs.  Nellie  Dashwood,  a  Young  Widow,  -  -  -  .  -  Mrs.  Geo.  S.  Knight. 
Iron  Founders,  Police  Officers,  etc.  SCENE — Lawrence  Mansion,  Lawrenceburg. 

3.  VIOLIN  SOLO — Fantasie  Brilliante  (Othello),       -  Rossini-Ernst. 

MR.  THEODORE  MARTIN. 

4.  SONG — Open  Thy  Lattice,         ------- 

MISS  ANNIE  MYERS. 

5.  THE  COOPER'S  SONG,  from  "  Boccaccio," VonSuppe. 

MR.  DIGBY  BELL. 

6.  RECITATION — The  Little  Hero,        ------  Mattheson. 

MR.  R.  A.  ROBERTS. 

By  kind  permission  of  Manager  DANIEL  SHELBY. 
e          fa,  Two  Grenadiers,  ) 

MR.  DEWOLF  HOPPER. 


64                                            HISTORY    OF   THE 
8.     RECITATION, 


MISS  MABEL  BERT. 

9.     SONG — Dein  Gedenk  Up  Margarithe,  -  -      Myer-Helnntnd. 

MR.  HUBERT  WILKIE. 

10.  MR.  EDDIE  FOY,  in  his  Famous  Specialties. 

11.  SONG — Love  is  But  a  Faded  Flower, Von  Suppe. 

MISS  MARION  MANOLA. 

12.  MLLE.  BRAMBILLA,  Premiere  Danseuse. 

13.  CORNET  SOLO— The  Volunteers,     -        -        -        -        -        -        -          Rogers. 

(Descriptive  of  the  yacht  race  between  the  Volunteer  and  Thistle.) 
MR.  JAMES  LLEWELLYN. 

14.  MISS  KATE  CLAXTON  and  MR.  CHAS.  A.  STEVENSON, 

in  the  fourth  act  of  their  great  play, 

"THE   WORLD  AGAINST   HER," 

(By  kind  permission  of  Managers  MORTON  and  PERLEY), 

WITH    THE    FOLLOWING   CAST: 

Jennie  Clegg,  -        May  Contee. 

Lucy  Danvers,  ...         Leslie  Tillson. 

Sallie  Millet,        -        -  -        Alice  Leigh. 

Liz  Markland,  -   Maude  Horsford. 

Mary, Loie  Collier. 

Annie,  Madge's  Child,    -        -  Daisy  Luby. 

Madge  Carlton,    ...  Kate  Claxton. 

Gilbert  Blair,  an  Ironfounder,          -  -        -       Arthur  Forrest. 

Mr.  Danvers,  a  Speculator,  -        T.  Edward  Hall. 

Harold  Vernon,  his  Nephew,  Payson  Mackaye. 

Simon  Clegg,  -        -  Palmer  Collins. 

Bob  Millett,  a  Showman,         -        -  -      E.  A.  Eagleton. 

Dick  Markland,  a  Coiner,   --------         R.  N.  Hickman. 

Hesslop,  a  Detective,       ---------  Edgar  Drew. 

Ned  Markland,     -  -          Master  Frank  Dean. 

(Twelve-year-old  son  of  Liz  and  Dick,  adopted  by  Sally.) 
Tawaits,   -        -        -        -  Edward  Short. 

James  Carlton  (Foreman  of  Blair's  Iron  Works),      •  Charles  A.  Stevenson. 


The  artists  of  the  McCaull  Opera  Company,  by  kind  permission  of  Colonel  JNO.  A. 
MCCAULL,  and  DAVID  HENDERSON,  Director  Chicago  Opera  House. 


Musical  Directors — ADOLF  NOWAK,  RICHARD  MADDERN. 
Stage  Manager — HERBERT  A.  CRIPPS. 


The  Press  Club  of  Chicago  wishes  to  express  to  Mr.  David  Henderson,  Director 
of  the  Chicago  Opera  House,  its  appreciation  of  his  courtesy  in  tendering  his  theater 
for  this  entertainment. 


PRESS    CLUB    OF    CHICAGO.  65 

At  the  regular  meeting  held  May  13,  the  Financial 
Secretary  reported  a  net  profit  of  $569.51  on  the  Opera 
House  matinee.  This  made  the  cash  balance  in  the 
bank  $2,276.20.  The  Directors,  under  the  leadership  of 
President  Scott,  had  completely  changed  the  Club  rooms, 
refurnishing,  refitting  and  redecorating  the  entire  floor, 
from  front  to  rear.  The  entire  expenditure  did  not  exceed 
$2,000.  It  was  decided  to  give  a  "stag"  reception,  to 
journalists  only,  before  the  formal  house-warmirig,  and  on 
Wednesday  evening,  May  2,  the  rooms  were  filled  with 
gentlemen  of  the  newspaper  profession.  They  were 
delighted,  and  the  result  of  the  reception  was  the  posting 
of  nearly  twenty  applications  for  membership.  On  the 
following  Saturday  evening,  May  5,  the  formal  house- 
warming  reception  was  given,  and  about  five  hundred  of 
the  leaders  of  the  social  and  professional  world  were 
entertained.  It  was  an  era  in  the  history  of  the  Club 
long  to  be  remembered. 

The  Club  tendered  Mr.  Seymour  Kisch  a  vote  of 
thanks  for  a  handsome  gift  of  the  Encyclopedia  Britannica. 
At  the  meeting  held  May  13  the  resignations  of  F.  A. 
Mallery  and  E.  B.  Hawkins  were  received,  as  Mr.  Mallery 
had  left  the  city,  and  Mr.  Hawkins  could  not  give  the 
time  to  the  duties  of  director.  The  President  announced 
that  at  the  next  monthly  meeting  the  vacancies  would  be 
filled  by  the  election  of  two  directors.  Messrs.  Scott  and 
Wilkie  were  named  a  committee  to  prepare  an  amendment 
regarding  the  admission  of  associate  members. 


66  HISTORY   OF   THE 

On  June  7,  at  the  regular  meeting,  the  constitution  as 
amended  was  finally  adopted.  Several  new  members  were 
elected.  Resolutions  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  Leander 
J.  Stone  were  adopted.  Montgomery  B.  Gibbs  of  The 
News  and  John  S.  Richardson  of  The  Times  were  elected 
directors  to  fill  vacancies. 

President  Scott  reported  that  the  restaurant  attachment 
which  had  been  put  in  had  proved  a  great  success.  It  was 
voted  to  tender  the  use  of  the  Club  rooms  to  the  Press 
Committee  of  the  National  Republican  Convention.  Also, 
to  give  a  reception  to  visiting  journalists  on  Tuesday 
evening,  June  19.  In  pursuance  with  this  action,  the 
National  Press  Committee  occupied  the  rooms  and  the 
tickets  to  the  National  Convention  of  1888  were  issued 
from  the  Press  Club.  A  reception  was  given  the  visiting 
journalists,  when  an  evening  was  spent  that  will  prove 
memorable  in  history.  It  was  the  first  gathering  of  its 
kind  ever  held  in  this  country  at  a  National  Convention. 
There  were  gathered  in  the  rooms  representatives  from  all 
the  leading  journals  in  America,  and  the  speeches  and 
other  entertainment  will  long  be  remembered  by  those  for- 
tunate enough  to  be  present. 

ENTERTAINMENT  OF  GUESTS. 

Original  in  conception  and  gratifying  to  the  popular 
taste,  these  entertainments  have  year  by  year  proven  to  be 
a  permanent  and  great  success.  By  these  entertainments 
the  Press  Club  has  assisted  many  of  the  now  prominent 


PRESS   CLUB    OF   CHICAGO.  67 

men  and  women  connected  with  the  lyric  and  dramatic 
stage  of  this  country,  and  the  most  famous  artists  vie 
to  lend  their  talents  to  make  each  recurring  entertain- 
ment more  successful  than  its  predecessor.  The  annual 
banquets  and  reunions  of  the  Club  have  been  occasions  of 
rare  social  enjoyment  and  of  pronounced  intellectual 
superiority.  Among  the  many  people  not  unknown  to 
fame  who  have  been  the  guests  of  and  received  entertain- 
ment at  the  hands  of  the  Press  Club,  and  whose  generosity 
and  courtesy  have  assisted  the  Club  to  prosper,  may  'be 
named  Henry  Irving,  Helen  Terry,  Mme.  Marie  Roze 
Mapleson,  Emma  Abbott,  Annie  Louise  Gary,  Minnie 
Hauk,  Jessie  Bartlett  Davis,  Marie  Stone,  Blanche 
Roosevelt  Marchetti,  Samuel  L.  Clemens,  John  McCul- 
lough,  Thomas  W.  Keene,  Lawrence  Barrett,  Joseph 
Hatton  (of  London,  England),  Baron  Wartegg,  Whitelaw 
Reid,  Emery  A.  Storrs,  Vice-President  Thomas  A. 
Hendricks,  Senator  John  A.  Logan,  Senator  and  Gov. 
Richard  J.  Oglesby  ;  Edouard  Remenyi,  the  renowned 
violinist;  Don  Juan  Marcia  and  Don  Carlos  E.  Leonardo, 
of  Mexico  ;  Parker  Bodfish  and  Frank  H.  Taylor,  artists, 
of  New  York;  George  Augustus  Sala,  Ben:  Perley  Poore, 
George  Alfred  Townsend ;  J.  B.  Mantrop,  of  Edinburgh, 
Scotland ;  Sol  Smith  Russell,  Bartley  Campbell,  Maurice 
Barrymore  ;  James  Whitcomb  Riley,  the  "  Hoosier  Poet"  ; 
Rev.  Sam  Small,  "Old  Si,"  of  Georgia;  Roland  Reed, 
Thomas  Whiffen,  Robert  Burdette,  the  Williams  College 
Glee  Club,  and  a  long  list  of  others  equally  noted  in 


68  HISTORY    OF    THE 

drama,  art,  literature  and  public  life.  Formal  receptions 
were  tendered  Marie  Roze,  December  16,  1880;  Keene 
and  McCullough,  February  19,  1881 ;  a  supper  to  Con- 
gressman John  F.  Finerty,  in  December,  1882;  a  reception 
and  banquet  to  the  Mexican  editors,  June  28,  1885.  In 
the  entertainment  of  these  distinguished  guests,  repre- 
senting all  of  the  leading  journals  of  Mexico,  and  others 
representing  the  commercial  and  material  interests  of  the 
Southern  Republic,  the  Press  Club  cooperated  with  a 
committee  of  merchants  and  one  from  the  Board  of  Trade, 
and  the  festivities  extended  over  several  days.  The  dis- 
tinguished party  were  taken  by  Mr.  E.  H.  Talbot,  a 
member  of  the  Club,  in  his  private  car  over  the  lines 
of  the  principal  American  railroads,  that  they  might  enjoy 
themselves  to  the  utmost  and  carry  away  a  lasting  impres- 
sion of  our  greatness  and  unbounded  commercial  resources. 
The  rule  as  to  membership  —  that  only  reputable  jour- 
nalists having  a  direct  connection  with  some  recognized 
newspaper  or  a  standing  in  literary  pursuits,  were  eligible 
—  has  at  all  times  been  enforced;  nor  has  the  Club  found 
it  necessary  to  drop  from  the  rolls  for  unprofessional 
conduct  more  than  two  or  three  out  of  over  four  hundred 
members  who  have  been  admitted  since  the  Club  was 
formed.  The  death  of  a  member  has  always  been  observed 
with  suitable  ceremonies,  and  those  sick  or  disabled,  if  in 
need,  have  profited  by  the  beneficiary  features  of  the 
Club.  The  Club  has  never  lent  its  influence  to  a  ques- 
tionable enterprise  or  indorsed  a  private  interest,  and  has 


PRESS   CLUB    OF   CHICAGO.  69 

put  the  mark  of  its  favor  on  but  one  publication,  and  that 
the  American  Journalist,  a  periodical  devoted  to  the 
interests  of  journalists  and  journalism.  In  1882  the  Club 
put  its  seal  of  condemnation,  unofficially,  but  none  the 
less  effectually,  on  the  "penny-a-line"  system,  which 
its  promoters  thought  to  make  a  successful  innovation 
in  Chicago.  In  March,  1883,  a  proposition  to  join  a 
"National  Journalists'  League"  was  voted  down  by  a 
large  majority.  The  spirit  of  the  Club  has  been  shown 
on  many  occasions  to  desire  faithful  services  on  the  part  of 
members  to  their  employers,  and  only  fair  treatment  in 
return.  The  Club  rooms  are  bright,  attractive  and  cheer- 
ful, being  handsomely  carpeted,  decorated  with  paintings 
and  works  of  art,  among  the  collection  oil  portraits  of  the 
deceased  and  ex-presidents  and  prominent  members ;  pro- 
vided with  a  valuable  reference  and  reading  library,  the 
periodicals  of  the  day,  billiard  tables  and  games,  day  and 
night  stewards,  and  other  necessary  adjuncts  of  club  life. 
So  far  the  Press  Club  of  Chicago  has  an  enviable 
record,  showing  even  progress  toward  the  goal  of  perfec- 
tion as  a  journalists'  organization,  and  financial  manage- 
ment that  has  kept  it  secure  from  the  disasters  that  have 
overtaken  many  club  organizations.  Disturbing  influences 
have  almost  invariably  been  relegated  to  the  exterior  for 
settlement,  and  it  has  been  tacitly  agreed  many  times  that 
no  outside  disputes  shall  be  brought  into  the  Club  for  the 
evening-up  process.  From  time  to  time  journalists'  clubs 
in  other  cities  have  made  inquiries  as  to  the  Chicago  Press 


70  PRESS   CLUB   OF    CHICAGO. 

Club's  management  and  the  secret  of  its  success,  with  the 
view  of  profiting  by  the  information  they  may  gain  to 
make  their  own  organization  more  stable.  Experience 
has  taught  the  Chicago  Press  Club  to  pay  cash  as  it  goes ; 
to  keep  the  credit  system  down  to  the  lowest  limit  pos- 
sible, and  to  make  sharp  collections.  This,  with  enter- 
prise and  cooperation  on  the  part  of  members  in  every 
undertaking,  has  placed  the  Club  where  its  promoters  and 
members  have  no  fear  of  the  future.  The  initiation  fee  is 
now  $15,  and  annual  dues  $12.  This  brief  history  of  its 
operations  from  the  start  is  necessarily  imperfect,  owing  to 
the  loss  of  many  records  that  would  have  been  of  value. 
That  membership  in  the  Club  is  enviable,  and  the  benefits 
many,  can,  however,  easily  be  imagined  from  this  sum- 
mary. The  Club  has  constantly  in  view  new  enterprises, 
such  as  courses  of  lectures,  musical  and  intellectual  enter- 
tainments, and  the  great  end  toward  which  its  members 
are  now  looking  is  a  building  fund  and  provisions  for 
securing  a  permanent  home  in  a  building  of  its  own. 


HARRY   K.  IRVIN 

Was  a  reporter  for  7>fe  Inter  Ocean,  who  died  at  his 
home  in  Waynesville,  Ohio,  May  24,  1882.  He  was  born 
October  24,  1861.  In  1874  he  entered  the  office  of  the 
Miami  Gazette  as  a  compositor.  He  was  employed  in  the 
census  bureau  at  Washington.  He  came  to  Chicago  in 
1 88 1,  and  joined  the  staff  of  The  Inter  Ocean.  He  con- 
tracted a  severe  cold,  and  quick  consumption  set  in,  from 
which  he  died.  He  was  the  first  member  of  the  Press 
Club  to  die,  and  the  following  action  was  taken : 

We,  the  members  of  the  Press  Club  of  Chicago,  sorrow  today  that 
the  shadow  of  death  has,  for  the  first  time,  fallen  upon  one  of  our 
number,  and  death  has  come  to  one  of  the  kindest  and  gentlest  among 
us  ;  one  whom  it  was  good  to  know.  In  the  presence  of  this  bereave- 
ment, we  yet  are  not  unmindful  of  the  fact  that  there  is  a  hope  beyond, 
for  which  our  friend  was  well  prepared. 

Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  Henry  K.  Irvin  we  lose  a  friend 
whose  like  we  seldom  find,  and  whose  life,  though  brief,  was  of  that 
exemplary  uprightness  that  wins  love  and  esteem  from  all. 

J.  Harry  Ballard,  of  The  Inter  Ocean,  was  appointed 
a  committee  to  represent  the  club  at  the  funeral. 

SAMUEL  J.   MEDILL. 

Sunday,  November  4,  1883,  a  special  meeting  of  the 
Press  Club  was  held  to  take  action  upon  the  death  of 
Samuel  J.  Medill,  ex-President  of  the  Club  and  managing 


72  HISTORY    OF    THE 

editor  of  The  Chicago  Tribune.  Appropriate  resolutions 
were  adopted,  lamenting  the  early  demise  of  this  gifted 
journalist,  and  the  following  committee  was  appointed  to 
accompany  the  remains  from  Quincy :  Martin  J.  Russell, 
M.  E.  Stone,  W.  K.  Sullivan,  Washington  Hesing,  J.  B. 
Bradwell,  Franc  B.  Wilkie,  David  Henderson,  J.  Harry 
Ballard.  November  n,  a  special  memorial  meeting  was 
held,  on  which  occasion  a  portrait  of  the  deceased 
ex-President,  executed  by  the  artist  John  Phillips,  was 
unveiled.  Remarks  were  made  on  this  sad  occasion  by 
President  Curtis,  Congressman  Finerty,  T.  Z.  Cowles  and 
Henry  Wendell  Thomson,  the  speakers  eulogizing  the 
deceased  highly  for  his  many  admirable  qualities,  and 
uniting  in  the  verdict  that  he  was  at  the  head  of  his 
profession  among  the  young  journalists  of  the  West. 

JAMES   E.  FITZGERALD 

Died  in  the  spring  of  1884,  of  consumption.  He 
was  nearly  fifty  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
He  was  born  in  Ireland,  and  came  to  this  country  when 
quite  a  young  man,  with  his  mother  and  sister,  whom  he 
supported.  He  was  employed  on  The  Tribune  as  com- 
positor, proofreader  and  reporter  for  a  period  of  twenty 
years.  He  made  a  walking  tour  of  Ireland  in  1864,  and 
wrote  a  series  of  articles  on  that  tour.  He  was  the  base- 
ball reporter  of  The  Tribune ,  after  Lewis  Meacham's 
death. 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  73 

WILBUR   F.  STOREY. 

October  29,  1884,  a  special  meeting  was  held  to  take 
action  on  the  death  of  Wilbur  F.  Storey.  A  Special  Com- 
mittee, representing  the  various  city  newspapers,  was 
appointed  to  attend  the  funeral,  and  remarks  were  made 
by  Prof.  Rodney  Welch,  Prof.  Elias  Colbert,  W.  K. 
Sullivan  and  Martin  J.  Russell. 

A  Committee  on  Resolutions  was  appointed,  composed 
of  Prof.  Welch,  Prof.  Colbert,  Martin  J.  Russell,  Dr. 
Harry  Manning,  W.  K.  Sullivan,  Washington  Hesing, 
Frank  S.  Davidson,  W.  S.  Walker  and  E.  R.  Dillingham, 
and  they  reported  the  following  memorial,  which  was 
unanimously  adopted  and  ordered  spread  upon  the  records 
of  the  Club: 

MEMORIAL. 

The  Chicago  Press  Club  and  other  members  of  the  journalistic 
profession  of  this  city  desire  to  place  on  record  a  testimonial  to  the 
memory  of  Wilbur  F.  Storey,  late  editor  and  proprietor  of  The  Times. 

At  the  time  of  his  advent  here,  in  1861,  the  city  could  not  boast  a 
newspaper,  in  the  present  sense  of  the  term ;  and  the  Press  Club  was 
an  impossibility.  Chicago  contained  six  establishments,  all  near  the 
verge  of  bankruptcy,  and  ordinarily  employing  a  total  of  scarcely  four 
times  as  many  men  in  reporting  the  news  of  those  days,  and  dictating 
to  their  readers  what  they  should  think  and  how  they  should  vote 
about  a  limited  number  of  questions.  He  set  out  with  the  idea  of 
making  the  expression  of  opinion  subordinate  to  the  dissemination  of 
news ;  and  the  immense  success  which  almost  immediately  rewarded 
his  efforts  proved  that  he  had  struck  a  popular  chord.  His  subsequent 
course  showed  that  he  appreciated  the  response,  and  determined  on 
continuing  to  deserve  it.  To  this  end  he  increased  his  news-gathering 
service  as  fast  as  the  expansion  of  facilities  would  permit,  and  had  no 
lower  aim  than  to  make  The  Times  the  greatest  newspaper  in  the 


74  HISTORY   OF   THE 

world.  With  this  he  was  frank  and  fearless  in  the  expression  of  his 
views,  encouraged  the  widest  range  of  thought  on  the  part  of  those  who 
contributed  to  his  columns,  and  rendered  no  small  service  to  the  world 
in  opening  up  and  helping  to  settle  some  hitherto  vexed  questions  in 
regard  to  the  liberty  of  the  press.  We  can  scarcely  say  how  much  the 
tremendous  progress  in  journalism  within  the  past  twenty-three  years 
and  the  consequent  increase  of  workers,  which  has  made  possible  the 
Chicago  Press  Club  of  today,  with  its  membership  of  nearly  two 
hundred,  is  due  to  the  genius  and  work  of  Wilbur  F.  Storey. 

Recognizing  the  great  loss  which  the  profession  has  sustained,  we 
cannot  but  deeply  sympathize  with  his  widow  and  relatives,  to  whom 
his  death  is  a  personal  bereavement ;  in  token  whereof  it  is  hereby 
ordered  that  an  engrossed  copy  of  this  testimonial  be  presented  to 
Mrs.  Storey,  in  addition  to  being  spread  upon  the  records  of  the 
Chicago  Press  Club. 

JOHN   FRASER. 

April  10,  1886,  the  membership  of  another  gifted 
writer  and  author  of  prominence  was  severed  with  the 
Club  by  death  —  Prof.  John  Fraser.  Notice  of  his  demise 
came  too  late  to  call  a  special  meeting,  and  President  Bal- 
lantyne  sent  out  notices  appointing  the  following  com- 
mittee to  attend  the  funeral  May  n,  and  draw  up  suitable 
resolutions,  to  be  subsequently  adopted  by  the  Club : 
Franc  B.  Wilkie,  C.  A.  Siiowden,  E.  A.  Barron,  E.  J. 
McPhelim  and  Oliver  H.  Perry. 

E.  T.  DALZELL. 

October  26,  Messrs.  Knox,  Cowles,  and  McGovern, 
were  appointed  a  committee  to  draft  resolutions  on  the 
death  of  E.  T.  Dalzell.  The  committee  reported  the  fol- 
lowing, which  were  adopted,  and  the  Secretary  was 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  7& 

instructed  to  have  the  resolutions  handsomely  engrossed, 
and  copies  sent  to  the  relatives  of  the  deceased  member  : 

It  is  with  deep  and  sincere  sorrow  that  we,  members  of  the 
Chicago  Press  Club,  recognize  the  great  loss  we  have  sustained  in  the 
death  of  our  fellow-member,  E.  T.  Dalzell,  which  occurred  at  Missis- 
sippi City,  Louisiana,  October  14,  1884.  During  the  time  Mr.  Dalzell 
had  been  a  member  of  the  Press  Club,  now  nearly  three  years,  he  had 
been  greatly  respected  by  all  of  its  members,  and  by  those  who  had 
had  the  pleasure  of  knowing  him  intimately  had  been  valued  as  a  true 
friend,  a  counselor  of  wide  experience,  and  a  thorough  gentleman. 
His  remarkable  attainments,  gained  by  naturally  studious  habits  and  by 
travel  in  nearly  every  part  of  the  world,  rendered  him  a  most  interest- 
ing and  valued  companion.  Recognizing  that  the  death  of  Mr.  Dalzell 
is  a  loss  not  wholly  our  own,  we  extend  our  sincerest  condolence  to 
his  relatives  and  his  numerous  friends  outside  of  this  organization. 

W.  M.  KNOX, 
T.  Z.  COWLES, 
JOHN  McGovERN, 
Committee  in  behalf  of  the  Club. 

CHARLES   D.  WRIGHT. 

December  13,  the  Club  was  called  upon  to  take  action 
concerning  the  death  of  two  bright  journalists  whose 
achievements  had  already  given  promise  of  a  splendid 
future.  The  following  resolutions,  as  signed  by  the 
respective  committees,  were  adopted  : 

WHEREAS,  Death  has  suddenly  taken  from  our  midst  our  comrade, 
Charles  D.  Wright,  late  Secretary  of  the  Chicago  Press  Club;  and 

WHEREAS,  These  brief  minutes  will  indicate,  though  but  poorly 
express,  our  sense  of  pain  and  loss  in  his  removal; 

Resolved,  That  we  mourn  the  too  early  decease  of  one  whose 
bright  mind  and  facile  pen  were  ornaments  of  his  chosen  profession, 


76  HISTORY    OF  "THE 

and  whose  ready  wit  in  social  intercourse  made  him  always  a  rare  com- 
panion. 

Resolved,  That  tender  recollections  are  cherished  of  evidence  that 
our  dead  colleague  was  richly  endowed  of  heart  as  well  as  of  head. 

Resolved,  That  we  tender  the  bereaved  widow  and  family  our  sin- 
cere condolence,  that  this  expression  be  presented  them  in  engraved 
form,  and  that  it  be  spread  upon  the  minutes  of  the  Press  Club. 

W.  H.  STRONG, 
F.  O.  BENNETT, 
W.  M.  KNOX, 
CHARLES  V.  HINE, 
LEO  CANMAN, 
Committee  of  the  Press  Club  of  Chicago. 


FRANK  ^CUNNINGHAM. 

Resolved,  That  this  Club  learns  with  sorrow  of  the  death  of  Mr. 
Frank  Cunningham,  after  a  long  and  dreary  illness,  during  which 
period  he  suffered  the  added  pang  of  banishment  from  friends  and 
acquaintances  on  account  of  his  health.  As  a  member  of  this  Club, 
Mr.  Cunningham  had  the  unqualified  esteem  and  respect  of  his  brother 
journalists,  and  in  his  death  the  Club  sincerely  deplores  the  loss  of  a 
valued  member. 

Resolved,  That  in  his  death  this  organization  loses  one  of  its  best 
known  members,  a  journalist  of  ability,  and  a  man  who  had  filled 
various  civic  offices  with  honor  to  his  profession  and  credit  to  himself. 
Resolved,  That  the  Club  forward  an  engrossed  copy  of  these  reso- 
lutions to  the  wife  and  children  of  the  deceased. 

T.  Z.  COWLES, 
JOHN  McGovERN, 
H.  F.  BOYNTON, 
FRANK  S.  BLAIN, 
J.  S.  BLOOMINGSTON, 
J.  B.  BRADWELL, 
Committee  of  the  Press  Club  of  Chicago. 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  77 

HENRY  WENDELL  THOMSON. 

A  special  meeting  of  the  Club  was  held  April  16, 
1886,  to  take  action  on  the  death  of  Henry  Wendell 
Thomson,  an  old  journalist  and  distinguished  lawyer  of 
Chicago,  and  one  of  the  earliest  Club  members. 

A  Committee  on  Funeral  Services  and  Flowers  was 
appointed,  composed  of  Messrs.  T.  Z.  Cowles,  Harry 
Manning,  F.  B.  Wilkie,  E.  J.  McPhelim,  C.  A.  Snowden, 
W.  A.  Taylor,  J.  H.  Ballard,  E.-A.  Barren,  W.  K.  Sulli- 
van and  Washington  Hesing,  and  a  Committee  on  Reso- 
lutions of  C.  A.  Snowden,  E.  J.  McPhelim  and  T.  C. 
MacMillan. 

PAUL   C.  RUSSELL. 

This  member  of  the  Club  was  killed  on  the  night  of 
February  20,  1887.  The  Club,  at  a  special  meeting, 
appointed  pall-bearers,  and,  at  the  following  regular  meet- 
ing, passed  resolutions  of  respect,  as  follows : 

We  learn,  with  profound  sorrow,  of  the  death  of  Paul  C.  Russell, 
an  esteemed  and  useful  member  of  this  Club,  who  was  killed  on  the 
Illinois  Central  Railroad,  at  Twenty-second  street,  this  city,  February 
20,  1887.  We  desire,  in  fitting  words,  to  express  our  deep  regret  at  his 
untimely  taking  off,  and  at  the  same  time  to  attest  to  his  sterling  worth 
of  character,  both  as  a  member  of  this  Club,  as  an  excellent  man,  and 
a  useful  member  of  society.  His  sterling  qualities  of  head  and  heart, 
his  kind  and  genial  nature,  endeared  him  to  all  with  whom  he  came  in 
contact,  while  his  worth  and  ability  in  the  varied  and  arduous  duties  of 
his  profession,  were  such  as  to  win  for  him  a  quick  and  hearty  recog- 
nition among  newspaper  men  wherever  he  was  known. 


78  HISTORY   OF   THE 

CLARENCE   M.  OSTRANDER. 

The  Press  Club  has  learned  with  sorrow  of  the  death  of  Clarence 
M.  Ostrander,  a  valued  member.  In  the  early  years  of  his  life  he  gave 
promise  of  a  bright  journalistic  future ;  but  his  career  was  cut  short  by 
disease,  and  at  last  he  found  rest  in  a  strange  country,  and  amid 
strangers,  to  whose  kindness  he  was  indebted  for  the  care  and  attention 
which  made  his  end  a  peaceful  one.  For  this  kindness  to  one  of  its 
members,  the  Press  Club  expresses  its  gratitude,  and  to  the  bereaved 
family  of  the  deceased  it  extends  its  earnest  sympathy. 

WILLIAM   COLEBROOK. 

The  sudden  death  of  Mr.  William  Colebrook  strikes  from  the  roster 
of  the  Press  Club  one  of  its  oldest  and  most  valued  members.  Mr. 
Colebrook  had  greatly  endeared  himself  to  his  brethren  in  the  Club  by 
his  uniformly  cheerful  and  genial  demeanor,  his  gentlemanly  and 
refined  characteristics,  and  his  sincere  devotion  to  the  interests  of  the 
Club.  In  his  fine  ability,  high  integrity,  and  sterling  worth,  he  was  an 
honor  to  the  Club  and  to  Chicago  journalism.  To  the  bereaved  wife, 
in  her  deep  sorrow  and  affliction,  we  extend  our  heartfelt  sympathy; 
and  it  is  ordered  that  a  copy  of  this  expression  be  engrossed  and  trans- 
mitted to  Mrs.  Colebrook. 

LEANDER   STONE. 

It  is  the  unanimous  conclusion  of  the  Chicago  Press  Club  that  the 
death  of  Leander  Stone  is  a  relief  from  a  malady  whose  lingering  tor- 
ture was  beyond  comprehension. 

He  was  a  man  of  grand  purposes,  whose  life  was  devoted  to  the 
performance  of  his  duties  to  his  family  and  society.  He  was  upright, 
persevering,  and  so  industrious  that,  by  his  intense  devotion  to  his 
labors,  he  precipitated  the  disease  which  shortened  his  life. 

He  was  genial,  large-hearted,  with  the  simple  nature  of  a  child ; 
a  warm  friend,  an  estimable  citizen,  and  one  whose  place  in  the  pro- 
fession of  journalism  it  will  be  difficult  to  fill. 

The  Club  mourns  his  death  most  sincerely,  and  extends  its  pro- 
found sympathies  to  his  widow  and  her  children. 


PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO.  79 

JAMES   F.   SMALL. 

James  F.  Small  died  on  the  evening  of  Wednesday, 
April  27,  1887.  The  Club  passed  the  following  resolu- 
tions : 

Resolved,  By  the  members  of  the  Press  Club  of  Chicago,  in 
meeting  assembled,  that,  through  the  sad  and  unexpected  event,  the 
Club  has  lost  one  of  its  oldest  and  most  esteemed  members;  and, 

Resolved,  That  we  hereby  put  on  record  an  expression  of  our  sor- 
row, and  that  we  tender  to  the  widow  and  children  the  assurance  of  our 
deep  sympathy  and  of  the  esteem  in  which  the  deceased  was  held 
among  his  comrades  and  acquaintances. 

Resolved,  That  the  Executive  Committee  be  requested  to  forward 
an  engrossed  copy  of  these  resolutions  to  Mrs.  James  F.  Small,  accord- 
ing to  the  established  custom  of  the  Club,  and  that  they  be  spread  upon 
the  minutes  of  the  meeting. 


ACTIVE  MEMBERS. 


LIMITED    TO    2OO. 


ALLEN,  J.  K. 
ALEXANDER,  HENRY  E. 
ARNOLD,  BURT. 

BENHAM,  P.  D. 
BABIZE,  AUG.  C. 
BARRY,  P.  T. 
BOYNTON,  HENRY  F. 
BANKS,  CHAS.  E. 
BALLANTYNE,  JNO.  F. 
BARRON,  ELWYN  A. 
BUSBY,  L.  W. 
BUSBY,  W.  H. 
BRADWELL,  JAMES  B. 
BROWN,  GEO.  P. 
BALLARD,  J.  HARRY. 
BLOOMINGSTON,  J.  S. 
BROSS,  WILLIAM. 
BUNDY,  JNO.  C. 
BABBITT,  GEO.  A. 
BOHN,  HENRY  J. 
BOHN,  JOHN  J. 
BOYD,  JAMES. 
BEMIS,  H.  V. 
BLAKELY,  C.  F. 
BLAIN,  FRANK  S. 
BRONSON,  LEONARD. 
BROWN,  SIDNEY. 
BAMFORD,  CHAS. 
BAILEY,  WARREN  W. 


CULBERTSON,  H.  W. 
CANMAN,  LEO. 
COWLES,  T.  Z. 
CARPENTER,  HARRY. 
CHAISER,  A. 
CHASE,  FRANKLIN  L. 
CARR,  HOMER  J. 
CAMERON,  A.  C. 
CRAWFORD,  JOHN  W. 
COYNE,  JAMES  H. 

DUNLOP,  JOSEPH  R. 
DANDY,  JNO.  M. 

DlLLINGHAM,  E.  R. 

DAVIS,  J.  M. 
DRESSER,  CLARENCE  P. 
DALEY,  JNO.  R. 
DURAND,  ELLIOTT. 
DUNHAM,  CURTIS  J. 
DICKSON,  M.  E. 
DONOVAN,  HENRY  F. 
DENISON,  T.  S. 
DE  WITTE,  HENRY. 

EGGLESTON,  W.  G. 

FULLER,  JNO.  J. 
Fox,  O.  L. 
FINERTY,  JNO.  F. 
FREIBERGER,  EDWARD. 
FAYE,  CHAS.  M. 


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FREEMAN,  WM.  H. 
FLINN,  JNO.  J. 
FLEMING,  I.  A. 
FLOWER,  ELLIOT. 
FLANDERS,  A.  R. 
FALTUN,  HARRY  S. 

GIBBS,  MONTGOMERY  B. 
GALLAGHER,  THOS.  J. 
GRAY,  FRANK  S. 
GARDINER,  C.  S. 
GLOVER,  L.  B. 
GENTILE,  CHAS. 
GAY,  HENRY  LORD. 
GESSWEIN,  A.  J. 
GOODWIN,  W.  R.,  JR. 
GLENN,  W.  M. 
McGLENN,  JNO.  McG. 

HYDE,  WM.  T.  C. 
HENDERSON,  DAVID. 
HESING,  WASHINGTON. 
HAWKINS,  E.  B. 
HAWKINS,  WILLIS  B. 
HINE,  CHAS.  V. 
HARPER,  WM.  H. 
HUNT,  HENRY  M. 
HULL,  PAUL  C. 
HEINEMANN,  H.  E.  O. 
HENDERSON,  Jos. 
HOLLAND,  JAMES  P.     , 
HATCH,  AZEL  F. 
HILD,  FREDERICK  H. 
HORTON,  GEO. 

INNSLEY,  EDWARD. 

JAMESON,  GEO.  H. 
JOHNSON,  F.  E. 
JACOBSON,  R.  C. 


JEFFERY,  JNO.  B. 
JONES,  L.  B. 
JONES,  EDWIN  W. 

KNIGHT,  HERBERT  M. 
KAUDER,  SIGMUND. 
KALHEIM,  O.  M. 
KNOX,  W.  M. 
KISCH,  SEYMOUR. 
KENDRICK,  BERT. 
KNAPP,  HOMER. 

LAWSON,  VICTOR  F. 
LEDERER,  CHAS. 
LARNED,  FRANCIS  M. 
LECKIE,  A.  S. 
LA  SHELLE,  W.  K. 

MOODY,  O.  E. 
McHucH,  Jos.  P. 
MURPHY,  RICHARD  J. 
MCGOVERN,  JOHN. 
MALKOFF,  M. 
MEDILL,  Jos. 
MATTHIAS,  CHAS. 
MANNING,  D.  HARRY. 
MEREDITH,  WM.  M. 
MASTROVALERIO,  A. 
MICHAELS,  C.  D. 

NIXON,  CHAS.  E. 
NIXON,  WM.  PENN. 
NICHOLAS,  W.  G. 
NORTON,  S.  F. 
NEWELL,  ALLEN  G. 

O'NiEL,  ARTHUR. 
OWEN,  EDGAR  E. 
O'NEILL,  THOS. 


ACTIVE    MEMBERS. 


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PERLEY,  FRANK  L. 
PRATT,  JNO. 
PACKARD,  A.  T. 
PRITCHARD,  E.  R. 
PAYNE,  FRANK. 
PALMER,  HARRY. 
PERKINS,  WALTON. 
PATTERSON,  JOHN  H. 
PARK,  WM.  H. 
PERCE,  CHARLES  F. 

RICE,  WILLIS  F. 
RAY,  DE  WITT  G. 
RITCHIE,  JNO. 
ROLLINS,  C.  E. 
RUSSELL,  MARTIN  J. 
RAE,  F.  G. 
READ,  OPIE  P. 
ROWE,  DR.  N. 
REIWITCH,  HERMANN  L. 

SMYTH,  HILL  C. 
SULLIVAN,  W.  B. 
SMITH,  H.  R.  W. 
SPEED,  H.  B. 
SANDERS,  J.  H. 
SHUMAN,  A.  F. 
STONE,  MELVILLE  E. 
SULLIVAN,  W.  K. 
SCOTT,  JAMES  W. 
STEELE,  SAM.  V. 
STRONG,  WM.  H. 
SEYMOUR,  H.  W. 
SHACKELFORD,  COLLINS. 
SCHIERBRAND,  C.  WOLF  VON. 
SHUMAN,  ANDREW. 
SASSEEN,  D.  E. 
SULLIVAN,  F.  E. 


SEVERING,  WM.  L. 
SCOVEL,  H.  M. 
STEVENSON,  F.  B. 
SNOWDEN,  C.  A. 
SMITH,  WILLARD  A. 
SNYDER,  H.  W. 
STEWART,  E.  L. 
SUESMAN,  A.  L. 
SHIELDS,  GEO.  O. 

TINDALL,  JNO.  W. 
TALBOT,  E.  H. 
THOMAS,  JAMES  C. 
TAYLOR,  WM.  A. 
THOMPSON,  T.  O. 

VISCHER,  WILL  L. 
VYNNE,  HAROLD. 

WILKIE,  FRANC  B. 
WILKIE,  JNO.  E. 
WRIGHT,  GEO.  E. 
WILLY,  JNO. 
WALKER,  W.  S. 
WESTON,  J.  W. 
WHITFORD,  C.  B. 
WRIGHT,  C.  G. 
WALDO,  JNO.  B. 
WATERLOO,  STANLEY. 
WELLMAN,  WALTER. 
WEST,  JAMES  J. 
WEDDELL,  THOMAS  R. 
WALLIS,  JNO.  C. 
WOOD,  EUGENE. 
WRIGHT,  JNO.  E. 
WELCH,  FRANK  B. 
WARDROP,  WALTER. 

YATE,  B. 


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NON-RESIDENT   MEMBERS. 


ANDREWS,  BYRON, 
APPLEGATE,  TOM  S., 
BEARD,  AMBROSE, 
CURTIS,  W.  E., 
CLOVER,  SAM  T., 
CASTLE,  M.  B., 
CUMMINGS,  GEO.  W., 
EATON,  W.  D., 
FREER,  PAUL  C., 
HALL,  H.  P., 
HUME,  HUGH,    . 
LANGLAND,  JAMES, 
LUSH,  CHAS.  K., 
MALLERY,  F.  A.,     . 
PECK,  FREDERICK  W., 
PIERCE,  GILBERT  A., 
PRICE,  J.  T., 
PRIME,  S.  T.  K.,     . 
RICHARDSON,  J.  S.,    . 
WAKEMAN,  E.  L  ,  . 


New  York  City. 
Adrian,  Mich. 
Cleveland,  Ohio. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Sioux  Falls,  Dak. 
Sandwich,  111. 
New  York  City. 

Boston,  Mass. 
St.  Paul,  Minn. 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Erie,  Pa. 
Wichita,  Kan. 
Bismarck,  Dak. 
St.  Paul,  Minn. 
Dwight,  111. 
Wichita,  Kan. 
New  York  City. 


HONORARY   MEMBERS. 


HATTON,  JOSEPH, 

MACHETTA,  BLANCHE  ROOSEVELT, 

BURDETTE,  ROBT.  J.,  . 

LONG,  COL.  CHAS.  CHAILLE,     . 

NYE,  EDGAR  W., 

RILEY,  JAMES  WHITCOMB,    •     . 


London,  Eng. 
London,  Eng. 

Egypt. 
New  York. 
Indianapolis,  Ind. 


LIFE  MEMBERS. 

'GEO.  SCHNEIDER,  H.  L.  KOCHERSPERGER, 

JOHN  R.  WALSH,  H.  O.  SHEPARD, 

FERD.  W.  PECK. 


(SBB,   ALSO,    AMENDMENTS.) 


ARTICLE  I. 

SECTION  i.    The   name  of  this  organization  shall   be  Name. 
THE  PRESS  CLUB  OF  CHICAGO. 

SEC.  2.    Its  object  shall  be  to  bring  members  of  the  Object, 
newspaper  and  literary  professions  together  in  closer  per- 
sonal relations,  to  further  good-fellowship,  and  to  provide 
members  with  comfortable  Club  rooms. 

ARTICLE  II. 

SECTION  i.  There  shall  be  four  classes  of  members, 
active,  non-resident,  life  and  honorary. 

SEC.  2.  The  following  shall  be  eligible  to  active  mem- 
bership : 

(a)  Persons  connected  with  the  press  in  Chicago  or 
elsewhere,  as  editors,  reporters,  proprietors,  publishers  or 
regular  paid  contributors  or  correspondents. 

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86  PRESS   CLUB   OF    CHICAGO. 

(&)  Resident  editors  and  regular  paid  correspond- 
ents of  journals  published  in  other  large  cities. 

(V)  Artists  regularly  employed  in  the  newspaper  pro- 
fession. 

(X)  Authors  of  books  of  original  matter  published  for 
general  circulation,  and  persons  regularly  engaged  in 
literary  pursuits. 

(<?)  Applicants  for  active  membership  must  have  pos- 
sessed the  above  qualifications  for  one  year,  and  be  not 
less  than  twenty  years  old.  Active  members  shall  not 
number  over  two  hundred. 

Non-resi-  SEC.  T..    Non-resident  members   shall   possess   all   the 

dent. 

qualifications  of  active  members,  save  as  to  residence  in 
Chicago. 

Life-  SEC.  4.    Persons    eligible    as    active   or    non-resident 

members   may   become   life   members  by  conforming  to 
Section  2  of  Article  VII. 

Honorary.  SEC.  5.    Prominent  authors  or  writers,  or  persons  who 

have   placed  the    Club   under   deep   obligation   may   be 
elected  honorary  members.  . 

Privileges.  SEC.  6.    Non-resident    and   honorary  members    shall 

enjoy  all  the  privileges  of  active  and  life  members  except 
those  of  voting  and  holding  office. 

NO  woman.          SEC.  7.    No  woman  shall  be  eligible  to  membership  in 
this  Club. 


CONSTITUTION.  87 

ARTICLE    III. 

SECTION  i.  The  officers  of  the  Club  shall  consist  of  a  The  officers. 
President,  a  First,  Second  and  Third  Vice-President,  a 
Treasurer,  a  Financial  Secretary,  a  Recording  Secretary,* 
and  five  Directors,  to  be  chosen  by  ballot  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  Club,  in  the  month  of  January  of  each 
year,  all  of  whom  shall  constitute  the  Board  of  Directors. 
They  shall  hold  office  for  one  year,  or  until  their  suc- 
cessors shall  be  duly  installed. 

SEC.  2.    It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  President  to  preside  £ut?  °f 

•»  President. 

at  all  meetings  of  the  Club  and  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 
to  appoint  the  standing  and  special  committees,  and  to 
act  as  the  custodian  of  the  bonds  of  the  Treasurer  and 
Financial  Secretary. 

SEC.  v   It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  vice-presidents,  in  vice- 

J  Presidents. 

their  order,  to  perform  the  duties  of  President  in  case  of 
his  death,  resignation  or  disability. 

SEC.  4.    It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Treasurer  to  take  Treasurer, 
charge  of  the  funds  of  the  Club,  make  a  weekly  report  to 
the  Board  of  Directors,  and  to  pay  all  bills  on  the  order 
of  the  Board. 

SEC.  t;.    It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Financial  Secretary  Financial 

J    Secretary. 

to  take  charge  of  the  rooms  of  the  Club,  under  the  super- 
vision of  the  Board ;  and  he  shall  make  a  weekly  report 
to  the  Board.  He  shall  collect  all  moneys  due  the  Club, 

*See  ninth  amendment. 


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keep  an  account  thereof,  and  turn  the  same  over  to  the 
Treasurer  once  a  week,  taking  his  receipt  therefor. 

Bonds.  SEC.  6.    The  Treasurer  of  this  Club  shall  give  a  bond, 

with  two  sureties,  in  the  sum  of  $10,000,  said  bond  to 
contain  the  usual  provisions,  and  be  subject  to  the  ap- 
proval of  the  Board  of  Directors.  The  Financial  Sec- 
retary shall  give  a  like  bond,  with  two  sureties,  in  the 
sum  of  $1,000,  to  be  approved  in  the  same  manner. 

*ecCre£Sg  SEC.  7.    The  Recording  Secretary  shall  keep  the  books 

and  records  of  the  Club  and  of  the  Directory,  and  attend 
to  the  correspondence. 

Directors.  SEC.  8.    The  Board  of  Directors,  under  the  supervision 

of  the  Club,  shall  manage  its  affairs  and  render  a  report  to 
the  Club  at  its  regular  meetings.  The  Board  of  Directors 
shall  hold  weekly  meetings  at  a  faxed  hour.  Three  mem- 
bers shall  constitute  a  quorum.  The  order  of  business 
shall  be  as  follows  : 

(a)    Reading  of  minutes. 

(<£)  Detailed  report  of  Financial  Secretary  as  to  re- 
ceipts, accounts  and  condition  of  the  property  of  the 
Club. 

(ii)   Report  of  Treasurer. 

(d)  Examination  of  bills  and  their  payment  by  vouch- 
ers to  be  signed  by  the  President  and  Secretary  of  the 
Board. 

(e)  Canvass  of  applications  for  membership. 
(/)    New  business. 


CONSTITUTION. 


89 


Whenever  any  member  of  the  Club  is  reported  to  the  Sjck^ 
Board  of  Directors  as  being  sick  or  in  need,  the  Board 
shall  appoint  a  special  visiting  committee  to  investigate 
and  report  upon  the  case. 

The  Board  of  Directors  may  remit  the  dues  of  any  DUK^ 
member  on  account  of  sickness  or  other  sufficient  reason, 
for  the  time  during  which  such  reason  applies. 

SEC.  9.  When  a  vacancy  occurs  in  any  office  save  y^cies. 
that  of  President,  by  death,  resignation,  absence  from  the 
city,  or  other  cause,  the  fact  shall  be  announced  at  the 
next  regular  meeting  of  the  Club,  and  an  election  to 
supply'  such  vacancy  shall  be  held  at  a  future  meeting, 
either  special  or  regular,  as  the  Club  shall  decide,  and 
notice  of  such  election  shall  be  posted  on  the  bulletin 
board  for  at  least  seven  days  prior  to  such  election. 

SEC.  10.    In  case  of  a  vacancy  in  any  other  than  the  Directors 
presidential  office,  the  Board  of  Directors  may  appoint  »««*«. 
any  member  of  the  Club  to  discharge  the  duties  until  the 
Club  fills  the  vacancy  by  election  in  the  manner  above 
described. 

SEC.  ii.  If  any  member  of  the  Board  of  Directors  Absent 
shall  absent  himself  four  times  consecutively  from  the 
regular  meetings  of  the  Directors  or  of  the  Club  without 
an  excuse,  the  sufficiency  of  which  shall  be  determined  by 
the  Directors  or  the  Club  respectively,  his  place  may  be 
declared  vacant,  and  the  vacancy  may  be  filled  by  the 
Club  in  accordance  with  Section  9  of  this  Article. 


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ARTICLE  IV. 

SECTION  i.  Applications  for  membership  must  be  made 
in  writing,  and  posted  on  the  bulletin  board  by  the  pro- 
poser for  a  period  of  at  least  two  weeks  before  action 
thereon  is  taken  by  the  Club.  The  Board  of  Directors 
shall  canvass  the  names,  and  report  at  the  meeting  at 
which  said  names  are  to  be  voted  upon.* 

SEC.  2.  All  applications  approved  by  the  Board  of 
Directors  shall  be  voted  upon  severally  f  in  regular  meeting 
by  secret  ballot,  and  debate  upon  the  applications  shall  be 
proper  before  balloting ;  and  the  President  or  presiding 
officer,  the  Secretary  or  acting  Secretary,  and  the  teller 
who  receives  the  ballots,  shall  jointly  examine  and  agree 
upon  the  result  before  the  same  is  announced.  No  mem- 
ber shall  act  as  teller  at  two  consecutive  meetings. 

SEC.  3.  No  person  shall  be  admitted  to  membership 
of  any  description  in  this  Club  against  whose  admission 
five  votes  shall  have  been  cast.  No  person  whose  name 
has  been  rejected  shall  be  eligible  for  membership  until 
after  the  lapse  of  six  months  from  the  date  of  his  rejec- 
tion. All  applications  for  membership  shall  be  accom- 
panied by  at  least  one-third  of  the  initiation  fee  in  cash, 
which  shall  be  deposited  with  the  Financial  Secretary. 

SEC.  4.  Any  member  guilty  of  immoral  or  unprofes- 
sional conduct,  or  of  violation  of  any  rule  of  the  Club, 
may  be  suspended  or  expelled  by  the  Board  of  Directors. 


*  See  first  amendment.  t  See  second  amendment. 


CONSTITUTION.  91 

Any  member  suspended  or  expelled  shall  have  the  right  of 
appeal  to  the  Club,  which  may,  at  any  regular  meeting, 
by  a  two-thirds  vote,  overrule  the  action  of  the  Board  of 
Directors. 

ARTICLE  V. 

SECTION  i.    Non-resident  newspaper  men   may  enjoy  visitors. 
the  privileges  of  the  Club  room  for  two  weeks,  upon  being 
provided  by  a  member  with  a  visitor's  card. 

SEC.  2.    Residents  of  Chicago  eligible  to  membership  Residents, 
shall  not  be  admitted  more  than  twice  a  year  as  visitors 
on  the  introduction  of  any  member.* 

SEC.  3.    No  non-member  resident  of  Chicago,  eligible  Receptions, 
to  membership,  shall  be  invited  to  the  receptions  held  in 
the  rooms  of  the  Club. 

ARTICLE  VI. 
SECTION  i.    Annual  meetings  shall  be  held  on  the  first  Annual 

meetings. 

Thursday  after  the  first  day  of  January  in  every  year. 
Regular  meetings  shall  be  held  on  the  second  Sunday  of 
every  month,  except  July  and  August, f  at  four  o'clock,  and 
special  meetings  may  be  called  by  the  President,  joined  by 
a  majority  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  or  at  the  written  call 
of  any  five  members  of  the  Club ;  and  the  Secretary  shall, 
without  question,  give  notice  to  members  at  the  request 
of  those  authorized  to  order  such  meetings.  At  every 


*See  third  amendment.  tSee  fourth  amendment. 


92  PRESS   CLUB   OF    CHICAGO. 

regular  meeting  of  the  Club  the  Board  of  Directors,  the 
financial  officers  and  the  standing  committees  shall  make 
reports.  At  the  annual  meeting  the  same  officers  and 
committees  shall  present  annual  reports  of  the  matters 
over  which  they  have  had  supervision,  together  with  such 
suggestions  as  they  deem  for  the  interests  of  the  Club. 

SEC.  2.  At  the  annual  election  the  Financial  Secretary 
shall  be  present  with  the  books  of  the  Club,*  and  no  mem- 
ber owing  more  than  $2  on  any  account  shall  vote. 

SEC.  3.  Twelve  members  shall  constitute  a  quorum  to 
transact  all  business  at  regular  and  special  meetings, 
provided  that  a  two-thirds  vote  in  a  quorum  of  thirty 
shall  be  necessary  to  the  expulsion  of  a  member. 

ARTICLE   VII. 

SECTION  i.    The  initiation  fee  shall  be  as  follows  : 

(a)  For  active  members,  fifteen  dollars,  payable  in 
three  equal  installments,  the  first  upon  proposal  for 
membership,  and  the  other  two  at  monthly  intervals  after 
election  to  membership. 

(£)    For  non-resident  members,  five  dollars. f 

(V)   For  life  members,  none. 

(</)   For  honorary  members,  none. 
,      SEC.  2.    The  dues  shall  be  as  follows: 

(a)  For  active  members,  one  dollar  per  month,  paya- 
ble monthly  in  advance ;  or  ten  dollars  per  year,  payable 
annually  in  advance. 


*See  fifth  amendment.  tSee  sixth  amendment. 


CONSTITUTION.  93 

(£)  For  non-resident  members,  five  dollars  per  year, 
payable  annually  in  advance. 

(V)  For  life  members,  one  hundred  dollars,  payable 
upon  admission  as  such. 

(W)    For  honorary  members,  none. 

SEC.  3.    The   dues    of    the   Financial    Secretary  and  Remitted 

dues. 

Recording  Secretary  shall  be  remitted  for  the  months 
during  which  they  serve. 

ARTICLE    VIII. 
SECTION  i.    Notifications    of    indebtedness   for    dues  Names 

posted. 

shall  be  sent  out  on  the  first  of  each  month,  and  shall  be 
accompanied  by  a  copy  of  this  Article.  Upon  the  zoth 
of  each  month  the  names  of  all  members  owing  four  dol- 
lars for  dues  shall  be  posted  on  the  Club  bulletin  board  by 
the  Financial  Secretary. 

SEC.  2.    On  the  loth  of  each  month  the  names  of  all  Delinquent 

list. 

members  owing  five  dollars  or  more,  together  with  the 
amount  of  their  indebtedness,  shall  be  placed  on  a  list  by 
the  Financial  Secretary  and  handed  to  the  President,  and 
at  the  next  regular  meeting  the  President,  rising,  shall 
read  as  follows  :  "  By  direction  of  the  Constitution  of  this 
Club,  the  Financial  Secretary  is  hereby  instructed  to  give 
notice  to  the  following  members  [here  he  shall  read  the 
names  and  amounts]  that  they  are  delinquent  for  the 
amounts  specified,  and  that  at  the  next  regular  meeting 
the  Club  will  take  action  upon  their  cases."  And  the 


94  PRESS   CLUB   OF   CHICAGO. 

name  of  no  delinquent,  who  may  owe  five  dollars  or  more, 
shall  be  omitted  from  the  said  list.* 
Delinquents         SEC.   T.    At   each   regular   meeting   of  the  Club,  the 

expelled. 

President,  having  been  furnished  with  the  list  of  notified 
delinquents,  shall  read  as  follows  :  "  Under  Article  VIII 
of  the  Constitution  the  following  members  stand  before 
the  Club  in  the  attitude  of  delinquents,  whose  cases 
require  final  action  [here  he  shall  read  the  names  and 
amounts  due].  What  is  the  desire  of  the  Club  ?"  And  the 
name  of  no  notified  delinquent  shall  be  omitted  or  sup- 
pressed, and  the  delinquents  may  then  and  there,  by  a 
majority  vote,  be  dropped  from  membership. 
Compulsory  SEC.  4.  In  the  event  of  the  failure  by  the  President  or 

on  officers. 

Financial  Secretary,  or  of  the  persons  filling  their  places, 
to  carry  out  rigidly  the  provisions  of  this  Article,  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  each  and  every  member  to  bring  the  matter 
before  the  Club. 
Reinstate-  SEC.  5.    Any  person   excluded   from  the   Club   under 

ment.  J 

this  Article  shall  be  entitled  to  readmission  to  membership 
upon  the  same  terms  and  conditions  as  to  posting  of  name 
on  the  bulletin  board,  approval  by  the  Board  of  Directors, 
and  election  at  a  general  meeting  of  the  Club  as  a  person 
applying  for  membership  for  the  first  time,  but  subject, 
however,  to  the  following  payments :  The  amount  due  to 
the  Club  from  such  member  at  the  time  he  ceased  to 
become  a  member ;  a  sum  equal  to  one  dollar  a  month  for 
the  whole  of  the  time  which  shall  have  elapsed  between  the 


*  See  seventh  amendment. 


CONSTITUTION.  95 

time  of  his  ceasing  to  become  a  member  and  the  time  of 
his  reelection ;  and  ten  dollars  for  one  year's  dues  in 
advance.  Provided,  however,  that  in  the  event  of  the 
aggregate  sum  of  one  dollar  a  month  during  the  time  he 
was  excluded  from  the  Club  exceeding  fifteen  dollars,  the 
sum  of  fifteen  dollars  shall  be  accepted  in  satisfaction 
thereof. 

SEC.  6.    Members  of  the  Club  about  to  remove  from  Transfer 

of  active 

the  city,  either  temporarily  or  otherwise,  may,  upon  appli-  r°s"d"nt. 
cation  to  the  Board  of  Directors,  have  their  names 
transferred  to  the  list  of  non-resident  members,  subject  to 
dues  in  the  sum  of  five  dollars  per  year.  Members 
failing  to  secure  such  transfer  shall  be  regarded  as  regular 
active  members,  subject  to  the  regular  monthly  assess- 
ment.* 

SEC.  7.  Any  member  of  the  Club  who  may  have  hereto- 
fore resigned,  or  who  shall  hereafter  resign,  in  good  stand- 
ing, shall,  at  any  time  thereafter,  be  entitled  to  readmission 
to  membership  upon  the  same  terms  and  conditions  as  to 
payment  of  initiation  fee,  posting  of  name  on  the  bulletin 
board,  approval  by  the  Board  of  Directors,  and  election 
at  a  general  meeting  of  the  Club  as  a  person  applying  for 
membership  for  the  first  time.  Provided,  however,  that 
any  member  of  the  Club,  who  shall  have  resigned  as 
aforesaid,  in  viewof&fonajtde  intention  to  leave  the  city, 
and  shall,  in  fact,  leave  the  city,  shall,  upon  application 
for  readmission  to  membership,  be  entitled  thereto  upon 


*See  eighth  amendment. 


96  PRESS    CLUB   OF   CHICAGO. 

payment  of  an  initiation  fee  of  five  dollars,  in  place  of  the 
ordinary  initiation  fee  of  fifteen  dollars,  subject,  however, 
to  fulfillment  of  all  the  other  terms  and  conditions  apply- 
ing to  a  first  application  for  membership. 

ARTICLE   IX. 

SECTION  i.    The  order  of  business  at  all  regular  meet- 
ings of  the  Club  shall  be  as  follows  : 

1.  Roll  call. 

2.  Reading  of  minutes. 

3.  Reports  of  officers. 

4.  Reading  of  delinquent  lists,  if  any. 

5.  Reports  of  standing  committees. 

6.  Reports  of  special  committees. 

7.  Election  of  members. 

8.  Unfinished  business. 

9.  New  business. 

SEC.  2.    The  standing  committees  of  the  Club  shall  be 
as  follows : 

1.  On  annual  entertainment,  five  members. 

2.  On  receptions,  five  members. 

3.  On  library  and  museum,  three  members. 

4.  On  art,  three  members. 

ARTICLE  X. 

The  library.         SECTION  i.    No  book  belonging  to  the  library  shall  be 
taken  out  of  the  Club  rooms. 


CONSTITUTION.  97 

SEC.   2.    The  moneys  of  the  Club  shall  be  applied  to  Expendi- 
tures. 

the  actual  necessary  current  expenses,  in  accordance  with 
the  discretion  of  the  Board  of  Directors.  Appropria- 
tions for  benevolent  purposes  may  be  made  by  the  Club 
at  any  general  or  special  meeting,  by  a  three-fourths 
vote  of  the  members  present. 

SEC.  -i.    Whenever  any   member  shall  compel   credit  Compulsion 

of  credit. 

from  an  employe  of  the  Club,  such  action  shall  be 
reported  to  the  Board  of  Directors  at  their  next  meeting 
by  the  Financial  Secretary,  and  if  the  member,  upon 
notification  by  the  Directors,  shall  not,  before  the  next 
meeting  of  the  Board,  pay  the  indebtedness  incurred,  he 
shall  be  expelled  by  the  Board. 

SEC.  4.    On  all  parliamentary  questions  not  otherwise  Rules  of 

order. 

provided  for,  Roberts'  Rules  of  Order  shall  be  authority. 

SEC.  5.    This   Constitution  may  be  amended  at  such  Amend- 
ments. 

time  or  times  as  shall  be  deemed  advisable ;  all  amend- 
ments to  the  same  to  be  handed  in,  in  writing,  four 
weeks  before  they  are  put  upon  their  passage  at  a  regular 
Club  meeting,  and  to  be  posted  in  the  Club  rooms,  where 
they  can  be  seen  by  the  members,  at  least  three  weeks 
before  action  thereon  ;  "such  amendments  to  be  adopted  by 
a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  members  present. 


AMENDMENTS. 


TO  ARTICLE  IV,  SECTION  i. 

1.  Change  final  sentence  to  read:     "Applications  shall 
be  numbered  in  the  order  of  the   dates  of  their  being 
posted,  and  the  Board  of  Directors  shall  canvass  and  pass 
upon  them  in  said  order,  and  report  thereon  to  the  Club  at 
the  meeting  at  which  said  names  are  to  be  voted  upon." 

TO  ARTICLE  IV,  SECTION  2. 

2.  After  the  word  "severally"  in  second  line  insert  the 
words  "in  their  numerical  order." 

TO  ARTICLE  V,  SECTION  2. 

3-  Add  "and  the  names  of  such  visitors,  with  the  dates 
of  their  visits,  shall  be  entered  in  the  Club  register  by  the 
introducing  members." 

TO  ARTICLE  VI,  SECTION  I. 

4-  Strike  out  the  words  "  except  July  and  August." 

TO  ARTICLE  VI,  SECTION  2. 

5.  After  the  word  "  Club  "  in  the  second  line,  change  to 
read :  "and  no  member  whose  name  is  then  posted  under 
operation  of  Article  VIII  shall  vote." 


AMENDMENTS.  99 

TO  ARTICLE  VII,  SECTION  i.     (b) 

Change  to  read  :   "  For  non-resident  members,  fifteen    6. 
dollars." 

TO  ARTICLE  VIII,  SECTION  2. 

Add  :   "  All  notified  delinquents  must  pay  their  indebt-    7- 
edness  in  full.     Failing  to  do  so,  they  shall  be  continued 
on  the  list,  and  be  subject  to  final  action  by  the  Club  as 
provided  under  Sec.  3." 

TO  ARTICLE  VIII,  SECTION  6. 

Add:  "  Non-resident  members  who  shall  become  resi-  8. 
dents  of  Chicago  shall,  by  vote  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 
be  transferred  to  the  list  of  active  members,  providing 
there  be  a  vacancy.  In  case  the  membership  be  full,  such 
non-resident  member  shall  take  precedence  over  new 
applicants  for  membership." 

TO  ARTICLE  III,  SECTION  I. 

Amend    by   inserting   after    the   words    "Recording    9. 
Secretary,"  the  words,   "a  Librarian." 


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